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Prickly Pear Paint

We have a lot of prickly pear cactus in the southwest. Wendy and I harvested a few hundred paddles and made paint sixty gallons of paint. The equivalent amount of paint from a hardware store would have cost us over $1,000. We made our catus paint for only $20 and painted the roof of our trailer to better reflect light and seal it up from rain. It still leaks in one spot.

1 comment:

ryanne hodson said...

yes!
this is awesome.
is this paint just for outdoors
or can you filter it even finer and use it indoors?