Christmas Tree Farms
Local tree farms offer families several options
Of all the family traditions of the Christmas season, none seem to carry the significance of the Christmas tree. The first known Christmas tree, decorated in 1510 in Riga, Latvia, with paper, fruit and sweets, started a custom that has carried on for centuries.
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Area tree farms are seeing ‘green’
MANSFIELD — It’s that time of year again, the annual Christmas holiday season, the busiest for Christmas tree farms.
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Danish Christmas-Tree Growers Face Cartel Charges (Update1)
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The Danish Christmas Tree Growers' Association, whose members are Europe's biggest exporters of holiday greenery, were accused by national authorities of attempting to rig prices.
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Local United Way organizations receive Christmas tree donations
Updated: Dec 20, 2007 5:40pm This holiday season, Target is donating more than 4,500 decorated Christmas trees to local Untied Way organizations to give to families, shelters and community centers in need.
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Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!
What Illinois county harvests the largest number of Christmas trees each year? You might not be surprised to learn it’s Macon County, with 13,692 trees harvested annually, but you might be surprised to learn that Bureau County comes in second with 8,000 trees harvested each year.
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Christmas tree facts and figures explain tradition
When you set up and decorate your Christmas tree, you will be partaking in a tradition with its origins in antiquity. The Egyptians, Romans and Druids all used decorated trees in celebrating the winter solstice long before the dawn of Christianity.
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Drought decimates Christmas tree seedlings, stresses this year's trees
for Maryland's Christmas tree farms, as the drought killed off many seedlings and saplings and stressed the mature trees that will go into homes this holiday season.
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Loudoun Valleys Christmas Guide Available
Many families will set out on an important quest the weekend following Thanksgiving; finding the perfect holiday tree. The Loudon County Office of Rural Economic Development has made available the 2007 guide to Christmas in the Loudoun Valleys.
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Christmas Trees
As soon as the turkey was finished the children wanted to know ... When are we putting up the tree? Although many area families now have Christmas trees shining brightly through their front windows, the question still resounds in some households.
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'Spotting' the perfect Christmas tree used to be a year-round activity for boys
Driving through our community and others nearby, I marvel at the beautifully decorated homes with hundreds of Christmas lights gleaming.
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Good Year For Christmas Tree Sales
With less than two weeks left before Christmas local tree farms say sales are up.
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Let Your PC Compare Christmas Tree Prices
Wasting gas driving around comparing tree prices? Let your computer do the comparing. Check out realchristmastrees.org. Rick Dungey of the National Christmas Tree Association says you can search by zip code.
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Green Christmas trees a rare crop
Organic evergreens can be a costly business decision for farmers. It struck Margaret Hull one day as she moved through her Christmas tree farm, her body covered head-to-toe to guard against the chemicals she was spraying, that she'd had enough of herbicides and insecticides.
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First tree bonded her to Windy City
Each December, Rich Lavery and I meet in a Catholic school parking lot at Sunnyside and Western. Lavery, Old Style can in hand and fire blazing nearby, is Lincoln Square's finest ambassador of Christmas. He's an alumnus of Our Lady of Angels School, and his daughter Katie Rose is a student there.
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Staying fresh: How to keep your Christmas tree green
Waiting to get your Christmas tree so it will be fresh next week? If you got the tree early, are you anxious about keeping it lush and green? Not to worry.
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Christmas tree farms cope with weather
Christmas tree farmers are in their high season, but said business has been cut down by sloppy, cold weather keeping the crowds away.
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'Trees for Troops'
RIO - For Rex Miller, owner of Miller's Christmas Trees on Otsego Road, having trees roll off his 20-acre tree farm is standard procedure during December.On Dec. 3, however, 200 trees left his yard bound for a special destination with no payment necessary.The trees, some of which were cut from farms other than Miller's, were gifts for military families serving throughout the world. The farm was ...
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Tree lots busy as can be
It's less than two weeks until Christmas. And while folks stock up on presents, decorations, and treats, it's tree farms that are seeing some of the biggest crowds.
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All they want for Christmas is a home
Erika, 7 years old, moves across the room and plops herself down on a chair. She doesn't walk so much as prance. She says she'd like something called Dora the Talking Stove for Christmas, and that'll be enough for now. Where would she put anything else? She lives at Sarah's Hope, which is a shelter for the homeless.
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Terrific tannenbaums
With Thanksgiving now a fading memory, many families are embarking on another annual tradition: searching for the perfect Christmas tree. Fans of freshly cut trees say there's just no substitute for the fragrant smell of pine and its natural look.
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Holiday tree farms get the ax
When it came time to decide what to do with his family's Christmas tree farm in Monroe Township, Thomas Allen didn't have a lot of options. His grown children had no interest in the business, and Allen couldn't work the land while holding down his full-time job supervising town recreation.
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A tree grows in Jersey
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Agri-tourism packages invite families to spend holidays on working farms, doing chores
REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb. — With pitchforks and heavy coats, three teenage cousins brave below-freezing temperatures and learn how to pitch straw into a sheep pen — something their teacher, 27-year-old Matt McClain, has been doing since he was a kid.
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U.S. Botanic Garden tree has ...Roots in Roan
A 25-foot Fraser fir grown on the North Carolina side of Roan Mountain is the centerpiece of the U.S. Botanical Gardens’ Christmas display this year.
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Farms Lure Cityslickers With Rural Vacations
Bleating sheep may not be the expected soundtrack for a holiday vacation, but some farm families in Nebraska and elsewhere are hoping to change that with an old-fashioned holiday celebration that includes chores, chopping down a Christmas tree, baking cookies and more.
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Try roots and all for Christmas tree
If you’re looking for a “green” Christmas tree this year, what’s the best choice – an artificial tree, a cut tree or a tree you can plant later? We asked Jon Wagar of Morris County, N.J.-based Conservation Resources about buying environmentally friendly trees for the holidays. He has a master of forestry degree from Yale University.
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Have a jolly holly for the holidays
Hollies are a classic Christmas plant with their bright red berries and classic leaf shape. They add color and interest to any winter landscape. There are many types of hollies to choose from.
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Activists tell town 'Christmas' tree OK
in conjunction with annual ceremonies does not violate the Constitution.
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Farms Lure Families for the Holidays
Agri-Tourism Packages Invite Families to Spend Holidays on Working Farms, Doing Chores
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High season for Danish tree farms
Ole Holm, a Christmas tree grower in western Denmark, is planning a trip to Scotland from the profits made because of a tree shortage that...
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