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.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever walked past a cactus with broad, flat, ovoid pads with colorful spiky balls growing from them? You just walked past a source of food.

Prickly pear fruit (and pads) is just one of many wild desert foods long used by Indigenous people. If you are harvesting prickly pear fruit this year, do so with respect, leaving fruit on the cactus ...

If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size cactus ...

It can sometimes be tough to find prickly pear in traditional grocery stores, but there's one sure way of getting your hands on the fruit: Steaz Prickly Pear Water, the buzziest functional beverage of ...

Lately, we’ve been a little obsessed with this whole state food question. We’ve asked readers (who’ve already narrowed it down) to tell us which they’d choose: Sonoran hot dogs or prickly pear fruit.

It is harvest time for cactus pears and that is one thorny opportunity. It is possible, however, to be a novice picker of that bulbous fruit that crowns the prickly pear cactus paddles this time of ...

Phoenix in the summer: Hot and humid with evening storms and a chance of a haboob (major dust storms for those who haven’t heard). One thing is certain of Phoenix summers; it takes a little motivation ...

A night of holiday-party drinking doesn't have to be painful the next morning, thanks to a common desert plant. The fruit of the prickly pear cactus is a lean, mean hangover-fighting machine. Grown in ...

STORY: In the hills of Ghaiman in Yemen, farmers are busy harvesting and cleaning the prickly pear. The fruit, which was once a wild and seasonal offering, is now a staple in markets across the ...

Throw a rock in New Mexico and you will most likely hit a prickly pear cactus. The plentiful and beautiful cacti, also known as nopales, produce a sweet and bright ruby fruit that sprouts from hearty, ...

All I have known about the culinary qualities of cactus comes from having a side dish of nopalitos at a few restaurants. These are made from the pads of the prickly pear cactus. I did not know that ...