If you've been storing your pears at room temp, you're doing great! Once they're ripe, it's time to eat them or pop them into the fridge for later. 💡 They will stay fresher and last longer when stored in the fridge. Also, remember to avoid stacking ripe pears to prevent bruising. #australianpears #pears #enjoypearfection | Australian Pears

Tools to forage prickly pear, part 3. Following historical Indigenous methods, in this video, I make a pair of juniper wood tongs and a grass brush to forage cactus fruits with only Paleolithic technology. Among the Apache, Cahuilla, Northern Cheyenne, Comanche, Diné, Hopi, Jemez, Karankawa, Kiowa, Seri, Tohono O'odham, and other American Indians, prickly pear fruits were historically gathered with wooden tongs and the spines were rubbed off by a grass brush, rolling on the ground with a branch,