I sat by the side of the road with the Mexican women peeling prickly pear fruit in the shadow of Teotihuacan. We waited as my Mexican cousins bargained for relics with the local farmers who dug them ...

TUCSON — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an icon of the ...

In my official job as Associate Public Relations Director, Human and Animal, I stay close to home on the grounds around here. That doesn't mean I don't know what's going on in the neighborhood. One of ...

We are approaching peak prickly pear season. Based on the prickly pear fruit she can see in her neighborhood, Sonya Norman gives it another week or two before the fruit is really ready for harvest.

In the courtyard of the historic Gutiérrez Hubbell House in Albuquerque's verdant South Valley, the afternoon sun is beginning to soften. A band plays under a spreading cottonwood, and in the audience ...

Climate change has made paramount the need to identify food crops that can grow in desert, with little water. Though some types of cactuses, like the prickly pear, have been consumed in Central ...

Prickly desert cactus sounds like the last thing you’d want to eat. But -- surprise! -- once the spines are off, cactus is juicy and tender, great in anything from salads and soups to main courses and ...

They are called darning needle cactus by the locals because there's a single sharp thorn for each areole. It's a thin, ropey cholla that nobody grows much anymore. But I have many of them here in the ...

Cactus fruit may look intimidating with its sharp spines, but it is completely safe and easy to eat Beneath its tough skin lies a juicy, mildly sweet flesh rich in fibre, vitamin C and antioxidants ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an icon ...