Published June 05, 2012, 04:30 PM
Worthington’s Okabena Apple Tree: On the Verge of Extinction?
Our family heirloom is an apple. No, not a carefully curated first generation iPod, but an actual, grown-on-a-tree apple. The kind you eat and it supposedly keeps the doctor away.
- Jay Milbrandt
Jay Milbrandt
Our family heirloom is an apple. No, not a carefully curated first generation iPod, but an actual, grown-on-a-tree apple. The kind you eat and it supposedly keeps the doctor away.
As the story goes, my great-great-great grandfather, H.J. Ludlow, a horticulturalist, propagated this special, hearty apple. It grew on the shores of Lake Okabena in Worthington, Minnesota, and took the name “The Okabena Apple.”
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