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 ...
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 ...
Connecticut farms like Double Trouble Acres, Locket's Meadow Farm and Lil' Rascals Farm are accepting Christmas tree ...
The Fraser fir (Abies fraseri), native to the southeastern U.S., is popularly used as a Christmas tree. However, it’s classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List. Its population has declined ...
As holiday joy transitions to wintry malaise, New Yorkers throw tons of trees to the curb. By Josh Ocampo Christmas is over, which means the Fraser fir in your living room will soon meet its end ...
Although Fraser fir is more sensitive to cold and ... he is now considering planting trees such as Noble fir and Korean fir, trees that, he said, “I wouldn’t have even considered five years ...
They spent their winters in Ft. Pierce and summers at their farm in Creston, NC. They grew Fraser Fir trees and sold them in Ft. Pierce as Creston Farms Christmas Trees. They eventually sold their ...
"A lot of people don't know what to do with their trees, so we chose to give them a second life and come up with some ways to use them," Bonton Farms Director of Guest Experience ...
A local Christmas tree farm was completely sold out before Christmas. This family run business has been open for decades, ...
Spruces do not retain their needles for long, the needles are quite sharp, and the needles are not aromatic like those of firs. Norway spruce has very dark green needles. It retains them longer than ...
June was one of Minnesota's wettest months on record with an average of almost seven inches of rain falling. But this fall, ...