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Randy Pratt, owner and chief operating officer, stands in a Christmas tree field Nov. 8 at Wilkens Fruit & Fir Farm in Yorktown Heights. The farm is celebrating its 107th season of harvest.
The first Christmas tree farm was planted by farmer and entrepreneur W. V. McGalliard in White Horse, New Jersey, in 1901. White House Selects North Carolina Family's Christmas Tree Farm To ...
[41] [66] In 2006, New York state Agriculture Commissioner Patrick H. Brennan, supported the virtues of purchasing Christmas trees from local Christmas tree farms. [67] In a statement released to support New York Christmas tree growers he stated, It is a tradition in my family to visit our local tree farm and harvest our family's Christmas tree.
Decorating for Christmas was a task my dad adored, and finding the perfect tree was a contemplative task. At Nick's, the sheep farm with a few trees we went to every year, he studied spruce, fir ...
Christmas tree farm in Texas. In 2002, in the United States, 21,904 Christmas tree farms covered 447,000 acres (1,810 km 2) of cropland and accounted for 20.8 million Christmas trees cut. [4] Of those farms, 686 harvested 100 acres (0.40 km 2) or more, which accounted for over 196,000 of the total acres of trees harvested.
Christmas tree production occurs worldwide on Christmas tree farms, in artificial tree factories and from native strands of pine and fir trees. Christmas trees , pine and fir trees purposely grown for use as a Christmas tree, are grown on plantations in many western nations, including Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Christmas tree farms across the country cover 266,964 acres of land, according to the most-recent USDA data. That’s close to 417 square miles, or a little less than half the land area of Rhode ...
Banks South Farm - 60 acres, Fairfield; John W. Field and John Mahoney Sanctuary - 14 acres, Fairfield; Grace Robinson Nature Sanctuary - 37 acres, Weston; H. Smith Richardson Wildlife Preserve and Christmas Tree Farm - 74 acres, Westport, comprising a Christmas tree farm, field habitat, and evergreen plantation