Climate change is pushing people to explore — and in cactuses, discover foods that others have known for ages. A curator at ...

Cactus fruit, commonly known as the prickly pear, may come from a frightful shrub but its sweet and nutritious flesh is worth the hassle of extracting it from the thorn-covered plant and then peeling ...

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, ...

Those growing and harvesting prickly pear fruit said 2024 is a banner year for the crop. One local company is trying to get ...

Nopales are a staple of Mexican food and culture. Now, Latino entrepreneurs are looking to the cactus to help them tap into ...

The prickly pear cactus (opuntia engelmannii) is a quintessential desert plant, highly useful to many species including our ...

Desert fruit flies, not so much. They fly through a mostly barren landscape dotted with a much smaller number of relatively ...

The fiesta in Albuquerque's South Valley on September 27 and 28 will celebrate the cactus, showcasing ways to prepare the ...

Desert fruit flies, not so much. They fly through a mostly barren landscape dotted with a much smaller number of relatively ...

The prickly pear cactus (opuntia engelmannii) is a quintessential desert plant, highly useful to many species including our ...

Food is everywhere in the Turks and Caicos islands. Even the flag. It’s one of the first things you notice out the window at ...