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Buckthorn Removal Festival <br />Saturday Oct 23, 2021 <br />Sunfish Lake Park - a <br />community project <br />At 9:30 a.m.: Help Remove Buckthorn - or Spread <br />Some Native Seeds (Team Competition) <br />for information call George at 651-757-5610 <br /> <br />At 10:00 a.m.: Learn about Buckthorn <br />Presentation by Ecologist Larissa Mottl of Stantec <br /> <br />At 10:30 a.m. Craft or Croquet with Buckthorn <br />Whittle a buckthorn walking stick, decorate a buckthorn <br />cookie or play buckthorn croquet <br /> <br />At 12:00: Enjoy lunch: <br />Buckthorn-roasted hot dogs from Cub, Billy Hagbergs’s Buckthorn <br />Beefsticks, Kevin Gorman's Chili, cookies from Lake Elmo Inn, Ox and Crow <br />coffee, chips, hot apple cider. With generous support from the Lake <br />Elmo Bank. <br /> <br />Identifying Buckthorn - <br />Leaves are still green in October, they have a central rib and a few veins <br />curving out, <br />with very fine teeth on the edges. The leaves are attached almost but <br />not quite <br />opposite each other on the stem. The tips of new branches end in a <br />“buck thorn”. <br />The bark is rough on young branches and is very rough on older <br />branches and trunks