DROUGHT CONDITIONS persist across much of the state, but local Christmas tree farm owners say that despite losing some of their young, newly planted trees to the elements, they’ve got plenty of big ...

Christmas trees are grown as a farm crop. It takes several growing seasons before a Christmas tree is ready to harvest.

Christmas Ranch Tree Farm also sells wreaths, graveside blankets and tabletop trees. The products take months to prepare before they are marked for sale in November. Hundreds of families come to ...

What's the first thing you do when you bring your Christmas tree home from the farm? Trim the trunk and lower branches? Put it in a stand and give it a good drink of water? Sure—but don't forget to ...

With Thanksgiving now past, many families across the country are ready for the annual tradition of putting up the Christmas tree. For those who opt for a real tree, the first mark of the holiday ...

Kate Lewton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. BURLINGTON — Christmas trees are a staple in many ...

Nigel Manley with one of the Korean fir trees he's been growing for the past few years on his Bethlehem, New Hampshire farm. Eleven days before Christmas, an outdoor firepit crackles next to the gift ...

As Bob Schrader approached retirement, he wasn't planning to take it easy. For 37 years, Schrader worked as the assistant director of the center for agriculture at UMass Cooperative Extension, part of ...

To prepare the Christmas tree for cutting you'll want to trim the branches that can get in the way of the cutting, which you ...

HOUGHTON LAKE — With Thanksgiving days away, Christmas tree farms across Northern Michigan are already buzzing. At King’s farms in Houghton Lake, the holiday rush isn’t just about selling trees - it’s ...

Since 2012, hundreds of Christmas tree farms across the country have closed. I drove to Indiana, where the problem is especially pronounced, to ask farmers what’s going wrong. Many tree farmers are ...

Many of the families who cut their own Christmas trees this year at Homestead Farm and M&M Tree Farm near Granville carry years of memories about their annual outings. This year’s special moments ...