Next to Christmas cookies, Christmas trees are one of the most important harbingers of the holiday season. While many folks prefer to use a real tree for their festivities, modern artificial ...

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 ...

Sam Cartner Jr., co-owner of Cartner's Christmas Tree Farm, measures the official White House Christmas tree, a 20-foot Fraser fir, in Newland, N.C., on Nov. 13, 2024.

Connecticut farms like Double Trouble Acres, Locket's Meadow Farm and Lil' Rascals Farm are accepting Christmas tree ...

Wisconsin fell to the bottom of the list as it has 800 Christmas tree farms. The cheese state is a producer of Scotch pine, Balsam fir, and Fraser fir and tends to cut around 700,000 trees each year.

There are longer-term risks from Helene, said Justin Whitehill, who directs the Christmas Tree Genetics Program at North Carolina State University. The hurricane’s waters could worsen the spread of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...