7th Annual New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival

The New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival is BACK for our 7th 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 Friday & Sat Sept 26th & 27th.

With cooking demos from James Beard award winning chef Lois Ellen Frank and Chef Walter Whitewater of Red Mesa Cuisine, Three Sisters Kitchen, Amber Benson of NMSU, and cocktail demo with Jessica O’Brien of Teddy Roe’s Bar. Arts and crafts activities include a prickly pear paint party with Susan Gomez Arts, water color and block printing workshops, and natural dye workshops with from Kalyn Finnell, and activities for kids from Explora.

We’ll also have a stocked vendor market with folks selling all kinds of prickly pear eats, treats, drinks, arts & crafts, bath & body products and more…and coming to the prickly pear stage we’ll have music from Sage Lacapa and Kirin Vicenti, the Jacob Shije Trio, Youngsville, Anything That Moves, and Levi Dean.

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
Early bird tickets are $17 for both days and discounted tickets available for students/children/seniors at $15 (only available until September 1st)