Climate change has made paramount the need to identify food crops that can grow in desert, with little water. Though some types of cactuses, like the prickly pear, have been consumed in Central ...

The Saguaro National Park is found in the Sonoran Desert. This Park is home to the largest species of cacti. Find out more about this interesting desert and the scientists studying there at the ...

A: It’s called Cereus repandus, the Peruvian apple cactus. It’s a South American species as you probably guessed from the name. It does well in our area except when we have a frost or freeze. The ...

I first learned about it while broadcasting at KVMR-FM, a hippie-staffed talk and music station that catered to alternative lifestyle folks in the northern Sierra Nevada. One guy in the office ...