Nopales, also known as prickly pear cactus pads, are vastly versatile, antioxidant-packed succulent plants. While these spiny cactus paddles are staples in Mexican cooking, their uses are endless and ...

If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size cactus ...

While the cactus makes a beautiful natural ornament in the Phoenix area, the wild plant also provides nutritional benefits from its fruits and spiny pads. Some of the cactuses, including the prickly ...

What began as a “COVID baby,” as Ripon resident Jillian Ruiz called it, is now a pickled cactus company that sells its products nationwide. She and her husband, Eric Ruiz, founded Eric’s Nopales in ...

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 ...

When most people see cactus, they see danger. But when Logan Sligar saw cactus, he saw opportunity. Now, almost seven years later, Sligar's High Desert Vodka has hit stores and restaurants across ...