The bright red fruit of the saguaro cactus are ripe and ready for picking - a certain sign that monsoon season is on its way. After he finished leading a workshop in saguaro planting Saturday ...

Tucker, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, carries on the ancient custom of plucking the fruit from the giant saguaro cactus, but she must work quickly. Once the rains soak the land ...

Cutting down such an important cactus is “disheartening” said ... What Arizonans need to know Saguaro fruit, or bahidaj, is the center of O’odham culture, he said. All year long, the ...

harvesting fruit from the majestic saguaro, the largest cactus in the U.S. Using an old saguaro rib as a gathering tool, they have only a few weeks each summer to do the picking before Southern ...

At the end of the month, the fruit of the saguaro cactus will be ready to harvest. It's a long-time tradition the people of the Tohono O'odham nation have passed down.

Additionally, the vibrant flowers and juicy fruit of the cacti offer nectar ... No matter where one looks, the saguaro cactus is deeply rooted, literally and metaphorically, in the land, history ...

Once the cactus is in place ... ribs and lashed pieces of the stiff wood into poles to knock ripened fruit from saguaro tops. Today, Tohono O’odham and Piipaash, or Maricopa, tribal members ...

A decade-old cactus could only measure an inch in height ... the cactuses are beings with personhood. The nation makes saguaro fruit into jam, jelly or wine. "You give a blessing to start your ...