Friday, Sep 26, 2025 at 2:00pm
Come celebrate the 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. After a successful addition of an evening event to our festival last year, we’ll be bringing festival goers two full days and one prickly night packed with all kinds of activities.
Schedule
2-7pm: Prickly Nights
join us and check out our full vendor market with over 60 vendors selling all kinds of prickly pear eats, drinks, arts, crafts, and other local products.
Folks can also get creative and paint their own prickly pear masterpiece with a paint party with Susan Gomez Arts , block printing workshop with Amy Maestas, and a natural dye workshop from Kalyn Finnell showing folks how to make the gorgeous carmine red dye with the prickly pear cochineal bug.
Folks can pickle some prickles with a pickling workshop with NMSU’s Amber Benson. In the evening attendees can learn how to whip up some classy prickly pear cocktails and NA mixed drinks with Jessica O’Brien owner of Teddy Roe’s bar and folks can check out bachata performance and classes with Ritmo y Tambor, enjoy the sounds of blues duo Sage Lacapa and Kirin Vicenti, followed by the Jacob Shije Trio.
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