One of the most common and iconic plants in our desert is the cholla cactus (Cylidropuntia spp.). It’s also a plant that many people love to hate. So why am I making it my plant of the month? Our ...

You’ve seen prickly pear jam at the supermarket, but did you know many varieties of cholla cactus are edible straight from the ground? According to the James Beard Foundation’s Foods of the Southwest ...

You see buckhorn cholla and think, "Uh-oh — cactus. Stay away from that." Usually, there's a painful experience behind that reasoning. But the Tohono O'odham, with a wisdom centuries old and the ...