8th Annual New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival
The New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival is BACK for our 8th year! Returning to the gorgeous
grounds of the Gutierrez 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 balloonists on the Saturday of the festival.
Friday Sept 18th
On Friday, September 18th 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 co-owner of Teddy Roe’s bar and enjoy the sounds of Sinister Surfer, Micah Thunder, and other musical acts.
Sat Sept 19th
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. We'll have cooking demos from Three Sisters Kitchen, Lilia Avila of Fiesta on the Go, Chef Senida of Tiny Grocer, and we’ll also be
joined by nutritionist Denee Bex of Tumbleweed Nutrition, 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, watercolor 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, including from Yappy Dog Farms and Vital Soil Landscapes.
