Tropical Storm Helene devastated Western NC’s Christmas tree farms, but buying a real Fraser fir tree this holiday season can help farmers rebuild. The aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene has ...

At his Choose and Cut farm in the mountains of western North Carolina, the white-bearded farmer is kind of like the Santa Claus of Christmas trees. He oversees 400,000 Fraser fir trees at his farm ...

Sugar Mountain Farms has been in business for 29 years selling Frasier fir Christmas trees on the island. Farmer Mark Trivett grows the trees in Newland, North Carolina, and brings them down to ...

Christmas trees are big business out West, but a hotter climate means challenges for tree growers. John Tillman owns Tillman Christmas Trees and has acres of Noble, Nordmann, Fraser, Korean and ...

When I buy a Christmas tree it is generally a fir, a balsam fir, or its close cousin the Fraser fir. Only once have I ever bought a spruce for a Christmas tree, and still remember the pain ...