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Date	Type	Title/Summary
03/30/2023	Planting	Silver Dollar Prickly Pear (Opuntia Robusta)-Sunizona, Arizona, USA: Site #0001 Opuntia Robusta planted Wednesday, March 29th 2023 on the south side.
03/30/2023	Planting	Velvet Mesquite (prosopis velutina)-Sunizona, Arizona, USA: Site #0001 Native mesquite already on the property, now pruned and managed for seed pod production.
03/30/2023	Crop	prosopis velutina Prosopis velutina, commonly known as velvet mesquite, is a small to medium-sized tree. It is a legume adapted to a dry, desert climate. Though considered to be a noxious weed in states outside its natural range, it plays a vital role in the ecology of the Sonoran Desert.
03/25/2023	Video	Awesome Nopal Cactus Harvesting The nopal cactus grows extensively throughout Mexico, being especially abundant in the central Mexican arid and semi arid regions. In Mexico there are over 3,000,000 hectares (7,400,000 acres) of land used to cultivate nopal.
03/22/2023	Crop	trichocereus pachanoi A fast-growing columnar cactus native to the Andes Mountains at 2,000–3,000 m (6,600–9,800 ft) in altitude. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.