Big Jim: Saguaro fruit harvesting
Revisit a couple of Jim Griffith's stories on the harvesting of saguaro fruit.
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In the Tohono O’odham calendar, June is “Saguaro Fruit Month.” As I write this, waxy white blossoms are appearing on many of the saguaros in o…
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What to do with the saguaro fruit once it’s picked? As I wrote earlier, you can just eat the pulp — it’s wonderfully sweet. My wife likes to s…
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Jim Griffith shows us how and when to harvest saguaro fruit. This video was made in 2015.
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One day in July, 1937, Howard O. Welty, a hard-working young reporter for the Tucson Citizen…
