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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.
It's one of the best traditions of the Christmas season - taking the day to cut down your own tree, and Chittenden County offers many farms to do it.
Wojcik's Christmas Tree Farm in Pittsfield, on the outskirts of Pulaski, offers cut-your-own and precut trees.
Cutting down your own Christmas tree allows you and your family to go out for the day to a nearby forest, search around for the perfect fit, and then take it home to be decorated in time for the ...
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. That same year, there were only three U.S. Christmas tree farms with more than 10,000 acres (40 km 2 ...
Fountain Lake Farm, also known as the Wisconsin Farm Home of John Muir, is a historic farm and National Historic Landmark in rural Montello, Wisconsin, United States.
Buying a real tree for the holidays is a family tradition for many. Here are four local farms where you can purchase and cut your own tree.
The difficult weather had discouraged his competitors from making their own journeys, and snow had covered the tree farms in Michigan and Wisconsin. [5] He hoped that the resultant shortage of Christmas trees would lead to a huge profit and solve his financial problems. [3]