Prickly Pear Harvest
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Join us for a thorough lesson in harvesting the fruit of the prickly pear cactus.
August is the season that the beautiful red fruit of the prickly pear cactus ripens. Join us in harvesting this fruit, cleaning it, practicing three different ways of rendering juice from it, and learning how to make jelly. But, the fruit is only half of the edible goods! The tender green pads can also be eaten. There are oh-so-many prickly pear species! Find out about our local ones, as well as those from southern Mexico that have been bred for over a millennia to be spineless. We’ll show you how to select, clean, grill, and pickle the pads, as well as share other natural history bits surrounding the nopal.
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Where to Meet: Desert Museum - Education Annex
What to Expect: We will collect fruit around the museum, clean it, demonstrate how to extract the juice using several methods, and demonstrate how to made jelly. We will also show how the tender pads, called nopalitos can be prepared as a vegetable.
What to Bring: Hat, tweezers, long sleeves and pants, close-toed shoes, water bottle. We will have tongs and buckets available.
Contact E-mail: [email protected]
Cost:
$65.00 per Adult-Member
$72.00 per Adult-Non Member
August is the season that the beautiful red fruit of the prickly pear cactus ripens. Join us in harvesting this fruit, cleaning it, practicing three different ways of rendering juice from it, and learning how to make jelly. But, the fruit is only half of the edible goods! The tender green pads can also be eaten. There are oh-so-many prickly pear species! Find out about our local ones, as well as those from southern Mexico that have been bred for over a millennia to be spineless. We’ll show you how to select, clean, grill, and pickle the pads, as well as share other natural history bits surrounding the nopal.
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Where to Meet: Desert Museum - Education Annex
What to Expect: We will collect fruit around the museum, clean it, demonstrate how to extract the juice using several methods, and demonstrate how to made jelly. We will also show how the tender pads, called nopalitos can be prepared as a vegetable.
What to Bring: Hat, tweezers, long sleeves and pants, close-toed shoes, water bottle. We will have tongs and buckets available.
Contact E-mail: [email protected]
Cost:
$65.00 per Adult-Member
$72.00 per Adult-Non Member
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Where is it happening?
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tortise Exhibit, Tucson, AZ 85735, United States
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Host or PublisherArizona-Sonora Desert Museum
