Tag: oaxaca

CSUSM Ethnobotanical Garden

Mixtec elder Don Erasto Camacena, a local herbalist and healer, joined Mel Vernon, Chair of the San Luis Rey Band of Luiseño Indians, to give […]

prickly pear cactus tuna and cochineal

Cochineal colonizing the prickly pear cactus tunas in my neighborhood. A couple of years ago, I went to a cochineal farm in Oaxaca where they […]

prickly pear tunas

It’s going to be another great year for prickly pear tunas in the North County San Diego back country. We’ll start harvesting them in […]