Friday, April 24, 2026

prickly pear experiment

When it came to ranching and agriculture, Jack London was an experimenter. Here he grew spineless prickly pear cactus as an alternative livestock feed - something he first witnessed in Hawaii. Despite help from renowned horticulturalist Luther Burbank, the experiment failed - the spines sometimes grew back.

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  1. Glad you read the signage. Otherwise that prickly pear patch would still be a mystery to me.

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