Spend any amount of time out in the desert, and chances are you've encountered a jumping cholla. It happens to the best of us. The cylindropuntia fulgida, AKA chain-fruit or jumping cholla, has a ...

You’ve seen prickly pear jam at the supermarket, but did you know many varieties of cholla cactus are edible straight from the ground? According to the James Beard Foundation’s Foods of the Southwest ...

You see buckhorn cholla and think, "Uh-oh — cactus. Stay away from that." Usually, there's a painful experience behind that reasoning. But the Tohono O'odham, with a wisdom centuries old and the ...