Organically grown
California State Organic Registration
number 40-0405
Fresh Organic Edible Cactus
Autumn Cactus Fruit Harvest has started
Certified Organic by:
California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF)
Our cactus plants have great fruit that ripens in late summer, and will
continue to yield through January
Right now we have a special sending out approximately five pounds of fruit in little
plastic 'clamshell' containers
We place those into the 15x15x5 inch boxes and fill in around them with Grade C cactus
Grade C is the best grade for home and restaurant and health food uses
Grade C is in general a thicker leaf, this will give you more food per leaf and less time
involved in preparation
Here's some photos of the leaves and the fruit
This is one of the clamshell containers loaded with the cactus fruits
This one is mainly loaded with 'robusta' fruits.
We have five varieties that fruit, and the seasons overlap on these.
So the varieties will change as the months progress.
Most shipments will carry two colors/types of cactus fruit, so you get a little variety.
My favorite is NOT the robusta... but many people like it because it is so very deep red
in color,
and they like the fact that it may carry more nutrients
These are two of the representative fruits....
the one on the left is from the variety of Opuntia ficus-indica that we call Lynnwood
the one on the right is the Opuntia robusta, deep red juice is in that fruit
We clean the fruits to a degree, but there may still be a stray glochid here and there,
we recommend you wear dishwashing gloves to handle them
These fruits are very spiny while on the plant.
We do a fair amount of wiping to clean them for you.
Here we have the Lynnwood opened up, and the rind pulled back.
This gives you a nice little ball of cactus fruit.
The photo on the right shows the fruit sliced open... notice the little seeds,
don't try to bite them, they are hard little things.
They are also too small and numerous to spit out...
so either juice the fruit (it is very sweet), or just swallow the little seeds.
Some folks have digestion issues with little hard seeds, so be aware if that fits you.
The images above are of the Opuntia robusta fruit
These are not a personal favorite of mine, but we know that many people like dark-colored
juices.
Fruits and vegetables of deep red color are often said to have a very high nutritional
content
I'm no nutritionist, and I don't know. But they don't taste as good to me as the other
varieties we sell.
We've had people buy them for the deep red color to the juice,
it can be used to impart a pinkish hue to other foods... if you like that
The juice is almost blood-red, it's kind of scary on the knife.
These fruits have to be sliced in two, then the insides scooped out with a spoon.
They don't separate from the rind easily the way the other fruits do.
Here we show two clamshells loaded with fruit, and packed into the
shipping box.
Then we pack around and over them with Grade C nopal cactus
We pack it up until we get to almost fifteen pounds.
We sell it as twelve pounds. You pay shipping on twelve pounds.
We're selling these lots of fruit and leaves for just $40 plus the
shipping costs.
We will be shipping these by UPS Ground.
You can use the shopping cart button below to order securely using your
credit card
The cactus Fruit season has ended for us.
Check back with us in September 2010 for the next season's growth
