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What to know: At this Christmas tree farm, you choose and cut down your own tree. Pike Nurseries. Location: 12630 N. Community House Road, Charlotte, NC 28277. Location: 9825 McKay Road, Charlotte ...
The first Christmas tree farm in the United States is believed to have begun in 1888 when George E. Wagner founded the Wagner Tree Farm on 1,700 acres near Pocono Lake, PA. He and his son, Sterling R. Wagner, achieved recognition in the fields of forestry and conservation. A WB&E rail spur provided an outlet for forest products, coal ...
Christmas tree cultivation is an agricultural, forestry, and horticultural occupation which involves growing pine, spruce, and fir trees specifically for use as Christmas trees. The first Christmas tree farm was established in 1901, but most consumers continued to obtain their trees from forests until the 1930s and 1940s.
In 2002, in the United States, 21,904 Christmas tree farms covering 447,000 acres (1,809 km 2) of cropland accounted for the 20.8 million Christmas trees cut. [8] Of those farms, 686 harvested 100 acres (0.4 km 2) or more, which accounted for over 196,000 acres (793 km 2) of the total area of trees harvested.
And while tree sales decline, wreaths continue to grow in popularity. Kevin Sprang said he sold 35 wreaths back in 1971, his first year. Now, the farm has about a dozen people making wreaths, and ...
Bear Creek Tree Farm has been selling Christmas trees grown on their Chapin property since 1980. They also sell a variety of container trees, fresh cut Fraser firs from North Carolina, poinsettia ...
Cut evergreen trees were used in 1923 and from 1954 to 1972. Living trees were used from 1924 to 1953, and again from 1973 to the present (2011). In the list below, the height of the cut tree is the height of the tree when raised at the White House. The height of the living tree is the height when it was first planted.
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