Keeping pears with other fruit helps to speed up the ripening process, the secret is in the ethylene gas emitted by other fruit. 🤫 Once your pears are ripe, keep them in the fridge and they'll keep for a few more days. Thanks for the tips @rocket_science! 🙌🏼 #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,