Then on Saturday for our main day festival goers can enjoy cooking demos from Lilia Avila Owner of Fiesta on the Go, Three Sisters Kitchen, Amber Benson from NMSU, and Tina Archuleta owner and chef of Itality, as well as a prickly pear cocktail and mocktail demo with Safe House Distilling Co. and Sugar Moon Syrups. as well as a healthful prickly pear and lion's mane green tea demo with Midnight Disco Fungi. Folks can also get creative and paint their own prickly pear decorated pot with four painting sessions throughout the day with Susan Gomez Arts (you can book your session here) and two natural dye workshops from Kalyn Finnell showing folks how to make the gorgeous carmine red dye with the prickly pear cochineal bug (pre-registration available here, with walk-up spots available).

Attendees can browse 60 plus vendors selling all kinds of prickly pear eats, drinks, arts, crafts, and other local products and while checking out the vendor goods folks can hear performances from Micah Thunder, Mauro Woody and Dust City Opera

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. Including Including a talk from former ABQ Biopark curator David Ferguson on the best prickly pear varieties to grow in Central New Mexico, presentation from the on On preserving native seed diversity Southwest Seed Partnership, and talk with NM Farmer’s Market Association’s Michael Venticinque on the benefits of getting USDA certification for specialty crops like prickly pear.

The festival will host an array of vendors with different prickly pear products and other food and crafts of New Mexico.