Cultivating Native Foods and Medicine. Prickly Pear Cactus and Fruit Workshop Nopales & Tuna

In this two part workshop we will be exploring a native cacti that has been used for a millennia as food, Opuntia spp. commonly known as Nopal, Nopales, Nopalitos, Prickly Pear and its fruit commonly known as Tuna. Nopales have been gaining culinary popularity yet many do not know how to prepare the cacti and it's botanical uses in medicine and beauty have been overlooked. This is a two part workshop, Part I and Part II are explained below. I want to add that I am encouraging folks to cultivate their own Noples as the critters look to the cacti for a source of food and water which is scarce in our desert ecosystems. This workshop will be held in the Sun Room at Cactus Mart in Morongo Valley, CA in the Mojave Desert just outside of Joshua Tree and Pioneertown.

We will have Prickly Pear cactus available for purchase…