8th Annual New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival

The New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival is BACK for our 8 th 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. ….with one BIG addition, we’ll be joined this year by special shapes, cactus shaped balloon, Cheekytita, as well as a handful of other RC balloonist on the Saturday of the festival. On Friday September 18 th join us from 2pm – 7 pm and check out our full vendor market with over 60 plus vendors selling all kinds of prickly pear eats, drinks, arts, crafts, and other local products. We’re excited to be joined by recently crowned Chopped champion Chef Justin Pioche of Pioche Foods group, showing festival goers how to make a delicious prickly pear dish. Folks can also get creative and make their own block print prickly pear art with Renee Romero of Roadrunner Art Hub and join a natural dye workshop with Daisy Cortes showing folks how to make the gorgeous carmine red dye with the prickly pear cochineal bug. In the evening attendees can learn how to whip up some classy prickly pear cocktails and NA mixed drinks with Jessica O’Brien owner of Teddy Roe’s bar and enjoy the sounds of Sinter Surfer and other acts. 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 Chef Senida of Tiny Grocer, and we’ll also be joined by nutritionist Denee Bex, talking about prickly pear and Indigenous foodways. Folks will also have more opportunities to get crafty with two more natural dye workshops with Daisy Cortes showing folks how to make the gorgeous carmine red dye with the prickly pear cochineal bug, block printing workshop with Renee Romero of Roadrunner Art Hub, water color painting workshops with Scarlet Selleck, and activities for kids from Explora. And in the afternoon coming to our prickly pear stage folks can enjoy the sounds of Taillight Serenade and Alt Saus. 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. Tickets are $20 for both days, $15 for the Saturday, and $10 for the Friday; with discounted tickets for students, children, and seniors and early bird tickets available before September 1st Visit nmpricklypearfest.com to learn more and check out all the details