General guidelines for harvesting and processing fruit from the fruiting cactus of Northern NM Opuntia engelmannii 

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Northern NM being high desert is full of piñon pine and cactus. If we are lucky, both will produce in abundance many gifts. This year is one of those years and we're excited to share with you our method of picking and producing one of the sweetest gifts the high desert has to offer, 'desert cactus fruit juice'.

The nights in Northern NM are now getting cold and the cactus fruits are concentrating their sugars and are ripe for picking.

HARVESTING 

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Watch where you step, the desert is full of sharp...