Then on Saturday from 10am-4pm, in addition to another full day of vendors selling all kinds of prickly pear goods, festival goers can learn how to cook up their own prickly pear dishes at home with cooking demos from Three Sisters Kitchen, Lilia Avila of Fiesta on the Go, and James Beard Award winning chef Lois Ellen Frank and chef Walter Whitewater of Red Mesa Cuisine.

Folks will also have more opportunities to get crafty with two more natural dye workshops from Kalyn Finnell showing folks how to make the gorgeous carmine red dye with the prickly pear cochineal bug, and activities for kids from Explora. And in the afternoon coming to our prickly pear stage folks can enjoy the sounds of Youngsville, Anything That Moves, and other musical acts.

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.

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