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Tanisha Tucker Lohse, of the Tohono Oʼodham nation, picks a ripe saguaro cactus fruit during a harvest day in Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Ariz., on Monday, June 23, 2025.

Tanisha Tucker Lohse of the Tohono Oʼodham nation picks a ripe saguaro cactus fruit during a harvest day in Saguaro National Park near Tucson on June 23.

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

For members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, the centuries-old sacred harvest of saguaro fruit from the desert around Tucson is experiencing a revival.

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens. For the Tohono O'odham Nation, harvest time for the “bahidaj” is a sacred start ...

In Arizona borderlands, a sacred saguaro harvest marks the Tohono O'odham's new year The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens. For the Tohono O'odham Nation, harvest time for the “bahidaj” is a sacred start ...

An umbrella is used to catch fresh fruit picked from a saguaro cactus during a harvest season day by the Tohono Oʼodham people in Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, June 24 ...

One plucks the small, thorn-covered fruits called “bahidaj” with a 10-foot-long (3-meter-long) stick made with a saguaro rib as the other catches them in a bucket.