The New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival is BACK for our 7th year! Returning to the gorgeous grounds of the Guterriez Hubbell House for another year of food, music, arts and crafts and a lot more celebrating everything prickly pear Friday & Sat Sept 26th & 27th With cooking demos from James Beard award winning chef Lois Ellen Frank and Chef Walter Whitewater of Red Mesa Cuisine, Three Sisters Kitchen, Amber Benson of NMSU, and cocktail demo with Jessica O’Brien of Teddy Roe’s Bar, Bachata performance and classes with Ritmo y Tambor, arts and crafts activities with like prickly pear paint party with Susan Gomez Arts, water color and block printing workshops, and natural dye workshops with from Kalyn Finnell, and activities for kids from Explora.
We’ll also have a stocked vendor market with folks selling all kinds of prickly pear eats, treats, drinks, arts & crafts, bath & body products and more…and coming to the prickly pear stage we’ll have music from Sage Lacapa and Kirin Vicenti, the Jacob Shije Trio, Youngsville, Anything That Moves, and Levi Dean.

And inside the Hubbell House we’ll have a series of talks and workshops for farmers, ranchers, and gardeners on how and why to incorporate prickly pear and other native plants into their systems.