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 ...

You may have tasted prickly pear candy and lemonade, but how about prickly pear beer? You will have that chance during the free Prickly Pear Festival on Saturday, Aug. 23, as Borderlands Brewing Co.

Mike Jones is a tall, genial fellow with a droll sense of humor. In his day-to-day life, he’s a loan officer with Sunstreet Mortgage. But at the visitor center of Saguaro National Park West, he’s a ...

Seasonal fruit beers will soon start to hit shelves and taps, and I am hoping to see prickly pear beers among them. Last fall, I made my own prickly pear juice — sweet, with a strangely distinctive ...

Hank Shaw is the author of Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast. This week on Good Food he talks to Evan about foraging for prickly pears in Los Angeles. Hank likes to make Prickly Pear ...