prickly pears

  • Handle with Care

    Handle with Care

    Prickly pears bridge the wild and the cultivated, giving us a fruit that’s adored by some and ignored by others. When did you last eat a prickly pear? Most Westerners have probably seen hundreds more of these hardy fruits than they’ve actually consumed. In the fall, they ripen on the lopsided, many-lobed cacti in the…