cactus

RivenRock Organic Cactus Site Map!

Many of these pages bear no relation to cactus, but are fun to visit.

RIVENROCK GARDENS CACTUS RECIPE PAGES!

  • OUR MAIN CACTUS RECIPE PAGE, YOUR CENTER FOR INFORMATION ON EATING CACTUS!

    • Pages on choosing and preparing cactus for eating

    Pages with cactus recipes

    1. John's Cactus Salsa recipe
    2. Vickie's cactus burrito recipe
    3. Cactus and bean salad recipe
    4. Nopales con Chili recipe
    5. Cactus and Tuna Fish salad recipe
    6. Fava beans and nopales recipe
    7. Victorias French Fried Cactus recipe
    8. Cactus salad recipe
    9. On eating raw cactus

    RIVENROCK GARDENS BEST EDIBLE CACTUS

  • Here is our fresh picked edible cactus, you can order here by using PayPal, a secure form of payment

  • Here is our two pound fresh picked edible cactus for payment by check or PayPal

  • Here is our five pound fresh picked edible cactus for payment by check or PayPal

  • Here is our fifteen pound fresh picked edible cactus for payment by check

  • Here is our fresh picked edible cactus, the page is designed with turtle caretakers in mind

  • Here is our fresh picked edible cactus, the page is designed with tortoise caretakers in mind

  • Here is our fresh picked edible cactus, the page is designed with iguana caretakers in mind

    • RIVENROCK GARDENS CACTUS CATALOG

  • Rivenrock Gardens Cactus Catalog Page, edible and landscape cactus plants
    1. Agave cactus photos
    2. Aloe Nobilis succulent
    3. Burbanks Spineless cactus photos
    4. Opuntia ficus-indica variety Lynnwood
    5. Opuntia galapagaia, Galapagous Islands purple Opuntia
    6. Opuntia josephs coat
    7. Opuntia microdasys, bunny ears
    8. Opuntia phaecantha photos
    9. Opuntia robusta cactus photos
    10. Opuntia subulata photos
    11. Santa Maria Opuntia Ficus-indica photos
    12. Santa Ynez Opuntia photos
    13. Trichocereus spachianus
    14. Rivenrock Gardens: Edible and Landscape cactus nursery order form

    • RIVENROCK GARDENS PRESS KIT

  • Our Main Press Kit Page
  • The Adobe Press mentions us in an article.
  • An L.A. Times article that mentions us.
  • The San Luis Gazette wrote about us!
  • Listen to John talk about eating cactus on NPR, from the July 4 1999 airing of 'All Things Considered'. Click on HERE to go there.

    • RIVENROCK GARDENS PHOTOGALLERY

  • Main Rivenrock thumbnail Photogallery

    See all our photos as thumbnails
    1. Thumbnails of our photos of cactus
    2. Thumbnails of our landscape photos
    3. Thumbnails of our photos of Lompoc's beautiful murals
    4. Thumbnails of our photos of Lotusland in Montecito California
    5. Thumbnails of our photos of Nipomo California
    6. Thumbnails of our photos of botanical gardens
    7. Thumbnails of our photos of the date harvest in Indio California
    8. Thumbnails of our photos of some castles in Europe
    9. Thumbnails of our photos of the animals of Rivenrock

  • Main Rivenrock Screensavers Page

    See all our 'FREE' Rivenrock Screensavers
    1. Photos of the J. Paul Getty Museum built on the hill over Los Angeles.
    2. A screen saver with the gardens and statues of the Huntington featuring prominantly.
    3. A screen saver with photos of Washington DC. These photos were all taken in the middle of the night in Late November 2004.
    4. This screensaver has photos of eleven of the large murals in Lompoc.
    5. This screensaver has eleven more photos of Lompoc murals.
    6. This screensaver has ten photos of the area around Rivenrock Gardens Pond.
    7. Photos of some of the Rivenrock Cats.
    8. This screensaver has fourteen photos of the tremendous Private Gardens of Lotusland, Montecito California.
    9. Photos of some of the mushrooms we've found growing at Rivenrock Organic Cactus Farm.
    10. Photos of some falcons used in the local Air Force Base Sanitary Landfill to control the seagulls.
    11. Photos taken in the canyon after a month of early dail rain. Too wet to work, we all went for a hike instead and enjoyed the sunshine and drying conditions.
    12. A screensaver with the neighborhood dogs, taken while on the hike mentioned above.

    • RIVENROCK GARDENS ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY SECTION

  • Rivenrock Gardens: Main Organic Philosophy Page

  • Compost, theory and practice
    1. The role of Compost
    2. What is compost, and what does it do?
    3. How to build your own compost pile
    4. Compost, two types, Aerobic and Anaerobic

    • A CELEBRATION OF THE SEASONS, UPDATED QUARTERLY

  • Seasons, a celebration of the Seasons in California
    1. San Andreas Fault, winter 2000. A reflecting pond, precious life for the desert.
    2. springtime in cactus country, photos of the desert in bloom. Y2K
    3. Summertime is Fire season in California, photos of a local 10,000 acre brush fire
    4. California's fourth season, Autumn, 2000
    5. Winter 2001, snow in California!
    6. spring 2001, deer at the doorstep
    7. summer 2001, cool ocean breezes...refresh the desert.
    8. Fall 2001, The deer's mating season.
    9. Winter 2002, night time photos of Rivenrock.
    10. Spring 2002, Photos of Rivenrock Springtime mists.
    11. Fall 2002, Photos of Rivenrock's terraces during a meteor shower.
    12. Winter 2003, the terraces of Rivenrock.
    13. Spring 2003, a King Snake visits Rivenrock.
    14. Fall 2003, Carolina in the Pines.
    15. Winter 2004, The Central Coast of Paradise.
    16. summer 2004, when the Cactus fruit ripens.
    17. Fall 2004, A desert along the beach.
    18. Winter 2005, a wet winter, the smallest rooms.
    19. summer 2005, A Professional Photographer came to Rivenrock to illustrate a book.
    20. Fall 2005, a day flying with the eagles.
    21. Winter 2006, A long, wet, cold December.
    22. Spring 2006, A visit to the Central Valley.

    • RIVENROCK GARDENS LICENSES AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Rivenrock Gardens licenses and professional affiliations Main Page

    • RIVENROCK GARDENS VIDEO FILES

  • Rivenrock main video page

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    • RIVENROCK GARDENS WEB PAGE DESIGN

  • Rivenrock Web page design

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    • RIVENROCK GARDENS GERMAN CACTUS SITE

  • Rivenrock Gardens: Kaktus site (In fractured German)

    • RIVENROCK GARDENS CACTUS, GARDEN AND DESERT LINKS PAGE

  • Cactus, garden and desert links

    • RIVENROCK GARDENS CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS

  • Customer service testimonials

    • PHOTOS OF NIPOMO CALIFORNIA

  • Nipomo, our little town in California. Photos, history and stories

    • ABOUT US SECTION

    ABOUT US SECTION, a series of pages telling about us, our pets, and some of the places we have visited.

  • Our Canyon Photos, San Luis Obispo county, California
  • Photos of famous Lotusland Gardens, Montecito California.,
  • San antonio Texas botanical gardens, from attendance at a cactus symposium in Sep. 1998
  • The Mountain Lion, an exciting true story from our back yard
  • Awards Rivenrock organic cactus nursery has won
  • Our visit to the Joshua Tree Didgeridoo Festival of 2002.
  • John's internet blog; Sep 2004; on lonely twisting highways full of ghosts and dead deer. Memories of Spain. Oma and the Harvest moon.
  • John's internet blog; Oct 2004; a surprise Ag inspection, the first rain of the season. Tarantulas and the lessons of Nature.
  • John's internet blog; Nov 2004; skunks and organic herbicides.
  • John's internet blog; Dec 2004; The Circus, the Sea, and Tsunamis.
  • John's internet blog; Jan 2005; It never Rains in California (yeah, right), Blessed are the mercifull, for they shall know mercy.
  • John's internet blog; Feb 2005; The vastness of space in the vast wasteland.
  • John's internet blog; Mar 2005; Buffalo Dreams, Ghost Dance, Yggdrasill and Ragnarok.
  • John's internet blog; April 2005; Butterflies and the Pope.
  • John's internet blog; May 2005; Laugh Now, Cry Later.
  • John's internet blog; June 2005; The Michael Jackson trial, 4X4's, The Pretender.
  • John's internet blog; July 2005; Spiders and Snakes, Werewolves, Marriage, "Beam me up Scotty".
  • John's internet blog; August 2005; Localharvest.org, nextcourse.org, Ray Charles, David Duke with Cindy Sheehan, Kern River Drownings, Q is for Quarry.
  • John's internet blog; Sep 2005; Shrunken heads, anarchists, skunk spray antidote, how to deskunk a dog, skunk odor neutralizer, temastian mexico, HBO series Rome, gulag, chernobyl, Sideways.
  • John's internet blog; Oct 2005; Methadonia, Pacifism, Titan Rocket, Central Coast Info, Out of Africa, Santa Barbara Wine Country, The Hitching Post, Menudo, chili, ADHD, wild in the woods.
  • John's internet blog; November 2005; Tasmanian Devils, Opossums, Zorro, Sovietizing America, Voluntary Extinction, the World's Ugliest Dog.
  • John's internet blog; December 2005; Desiderata, the power of the human mind, follow your dreams.
  • John's internet blog; April 2006; April Fools, Hiking, and Lions in the hills.
  • John's internet blog; May 2006;The scary skeleton people, cactus growing under the hood, weedwhacking, corporate lessons, does a lion scream in the hills?
  • John's internet blog; June 2006; Lompoc Valley Flower Festival, Icelandic Ponies, Devil's Shoestring, Learning How to Fly.
  • John's internet blog; July 2006; Kingdom of Heaven, Mindfulness, visit from 'Behind the Wall', Vandenberg Air Force Base, Press '1' for English, Santa Barbara County Fair.
  • John's internet blog; August 2006; murals, Magic, La Purisima Mission, Foie Gras, The "No-No' Boys, Elephant Polo, Californication, All Gave Some, Some Gave All.
  • John's internet blog; September 2006; Gaviota, Walking in two worlds, A Los Angeles Flowery Wall, Life in the Fast Lane, LA Freeway, Oso Flaco, Bright Lights, big City.
  • John's internet blog; October 2006; Four Wheelin at Pismo Dunes, The Last Spike, California Live Oak Quercus agrifolia, Midnight at the oasis, Cactus is our friend, Speed River.
  • John's internet blog; November 2006; Pickup Man, Santa Paula Calif, Borat, Shell Beach, Pirate's Cove, Port San Luis, pyramid, Caravanserai, Four-1 Liberation Front.

    • The Poetry SECTION

    The Poetry of Pamela Brink (John's sister)

  • Rivenrock Gardens Music Box, so you can listen to MIDI tunes while you surf our site, or others!

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