Name: Prickly Pear Festival
Start: 2026-10-31T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-31T13:00:00-07:00
Location: The Holland Center

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0 events 5 0 events, 5	1 event 6 1 event, 6 Featured 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Foothills Speaker Series: Story of Cacti Featured Tue. October 6, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Foothills Speaker Series: Story of Cacti Discover how cacti survive brutal heat, scarce water, and hungry animals with remarkable adaptations. Dr. Ken Sweat of Arizona State University explores the unique features, survival strategies, diversity, and habitats of this fascinating plant family. Presented by Desert Foothills Land Trust and The Holland Center, this program kicks off this year’s Foothills Speaker Series.	0 events 7 0 events, 7	0 events 8 0 events, 8	0 events 9 0 events, 9	0 events 10 0 events, 10	0 events 11 0 events, 11
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0 events 19 0 events, 19	0 events 20 0 events, 20	0 events 21 0 events, 21	1 event 22 1 event, 22 Featured 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Learn How Butterfly Gardens Make a Difference Featured Thu. October 22, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Learn How Butterfly Gardens Make a Difference Transform your yard into a fall fueling station for Arizona butterflies, including monarchs. Master Gardener and Monarch Tagger Adiane Hopkins shares the host and nectar plants butterflies need, thoughtful planting strategies that support pollinators, and how monarch tagging helps protect these remarkable insects.	1 event 23 1 event, 23 Featured 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Mini Minds in STEM – Paleontology Featured Fri. October 23, 2026 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Mini Minds in STEM – Paleontology Discover how paleontology reveals the ancient world through fossils, prehistoric life, excavation, and scientific clues. Taught by accomplished STEM students, this free session helps grades 1–5 learners build curiosity and critical-thinking skills while exploring what paleontology can look like as a future career. Each participant will uncover “fossils” and use evidence to reconstruct prehistoric life.	0 events 24 0 events, 24	0 events 25 0 events, 25
0 events 26 0 events, 26	0 events 27 0 events, 27	0 events 28 0 events, 28	0 events 29 0 events, 29	1 event 30 1 event, 30 Featured 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Mini Minds in STEM – Meteorology Featured Fri. October 30, 2026 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Mini Minds in STEM – Meteorology Become a weather scientist for the day and discover how clouds form, why storms happen, and how meteorologists predict the weather. Taught by accomplished STEM students, this free session helps grades 1–5 learners build curiosity and critical-thinking skills while exploring meteorology as a future career. Students will create a cloud-in-a-container experiment and tornado model to explore air movement and pressure.	1 event 31 1 event, 31 Featured 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Prickly Pear Festival Featured Sat. October 31, 2026 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Prickly Pear Festival Come to our haunted desert for the 7th Annual Prickly Pear Festival! This free, family-friendly event features prickly pear treats and products, demonstrations of juicing, jojoba oil pressing and mesquite flour preparation, plus face painting, caricatures, a haunted-desert photo opportunity, and an interactive storytelling performance. Come in costume and kick off Halloween with fun, food, and desert-inspired festivities for all ages!