NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Those growing and harvesting prickly pear fruit said 2024 is a banner year for the crop. One local company is trying to get people to stop overlooking the red fruit.

Celebrating everything prickly pear; food, art, and music. The annual New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival is back for the third year, featuring cooking demonstrations, workshops, and a market with ven… ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Prickly Festival is back for it’s fourth year. This year’s event has moved locations from downtown to the Gutierrez Hubbell House. The festival will ...

This weekend, cactus were cause for celebration in the New Mexico desert - a very specific, spiny succulent known as prickly pear. As KUNM's Alice Fordham reports, it's delicious.

The Prickly Pear Festival celebrates the cactus and all of its incredible and edible parts. The event celebrates its sixth annual festival from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, and from 10 a.m. to ...

By Carlos Andres López The New Mexican Oct 15, 2013 Updated May 12, 2025 0 ...

The difference with prickly pear cactus, or PPC, as we like to call it, is that it will help prevent symptoms before they begin, instead of after.

Prickly pears, also called tunas in Spanish, are produced by what is called the prickly pear cactus, part of the Opuntia genus. Native to Mexico, the bright purple-pink, orange, or green fruits ...

In botanical terms, the small, plump prickly pear is, in fact, a berry, measuring 2 to 5 inches, and ranging in color from red to pale yellow, or green, with deep red flesh.

By MARK STEVENSON, Associated PressDec 15, 2006 Cactus moth larvae feed on the inside of a catus plant at the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge in St. Marks, Fla, in 2003.PHIL COALE/AP ...

Today, the prickly pear cactus with the eagle eating the snake is a national symbol -- so much so that it appears at the center of Mexico's green, white and red flag.