Brown Bag Bunch - From Ice Age to Hedgerows: The History of the Osage Orange

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Tuesday, March 24 11:30 am-12:30 pm

Grimes Farm and Conservation Center

2349 233rd Street, Marshalltown

Registration Fee: Free

Registration Deadline: March 18 by 4:00 pm

In The Amazing Osage Orange, Melissa Burdick, the Executive Director of The Brenton Arboretum, invites us to discover one of North America’s most curious and charismatic trees. Through engaging visuals, stories, and science, this presentation explores the Osage orange’s unusual fruit, remarkable strength, deep cultural history, and surprising ecological role. Equal parts informative and playful, it reveals how this often-misunderstood tree has shaped landscapes, supported wildlife, and captured human imagination for centuries, proving that even the strangest trees have extraordinary stories to tell.

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