The Ancient Art of Harvesting Fruit in the Desert
Treasured by the Tohono O'odham, saguaro fruit appear only in the Sonoran summer.
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Noland Johnson aims his kuipad, reaching the 20-foot pole made of sun-bleached saguaro cactus ribs that bends under its own weight. His target is also a saguaro, this one living and rising some two stories into the desert sky.
People ate until their fingers purpled.
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