Foodies whip up tasty prickly treats

It pricks you in the hand if you touch it and gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe if you step on it. But, if you learn to work around the painful exterior, the prickly pear cactus is one of the Sonoran Desert’s tastiest hidden treasures. “It’s hard to believe that something so brilliant…

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Cactus Garden

Want to spruce up your yard in a cheap and colorful way? Cacti will do it! For people who enjoy bright blue skies, warm sunbeams and minimal rain, Tucson is paradise. But for popular yard plants such as roses, hydrangeas and marigolds that require more water than Tucson’s annual 12 inches of rain, the Sonoran…

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