Hey Prickly Pear People! We’re excited to announce The 5th Annual Prickly Pear Festival returns to the Gutierrez Hubbell House for another festival filled with food, art, music, and more celebrating everything prickly pear Sat Sept 23rd from 10am-4pm. We've got all kinds of things for cooks and eaters with cooking demos, tastings, and vendor market and this year we’re packing everything into one with programming for farmers, ranchers, and gardeners all in the same day! And we’ve got quite the day in store for you. Cooking demos from Israel Rivera of The Shop and Lilia Avila of Three Sisters Kitchen and Fiesta Food on Wheels, a talk about the nutritional benefits of prickly pear and their traditional use from Denee Bex of Tumbleweed Nutrition; prickly pear arts and crafts activities including two prickly pear print making workshops with OffCenter Arts and two prickly pear cochineal dye workshops with Kayln Finnell; music from Ailani, Almost Always Never, and Gold Sounds, and talks for farmers, ranchers and gardeners from Kactas Foods and Lorenzo Dominguez. Tickets are now available (link in bio); $8 for early bird General Admission (until Sept 1st), $6 for student/child/veteran tickets, then $10 General Admission (after Sept 1st) and $8 for student/child/veteran tickets We hope you’ll join us! . . . . . . . . #nmpricklypearfest #pricklypear #foodfestival #localevents #nm
