NEW THIS YEAR. A few, (very few!), fir and spruce trees we are growing on the farm will be available for choose-and-cut this year. In addition we will have the usual supply of Virginia pine, white pine, cypress, red cedar and pre-cut fir from North Carolina. The grower prices of fir from NC have decreased some from last year and this will be reflected in our prices for the pre-cut fir.

THERE WILL BE SOME CHANGES in the future in the numbers of different varieties of trees available for choose-and-cut. Trees take several years to grow so these changes will occur over the next several years. We expect to slowly increase the supply of choose-and-cut fir trees available and will cut back in the planting of trees that require a great deal of labor and other expenses in production. Some of the varieties of cypress are subject to a needle disease that is difficult and expensive to control and we will decrease our planting of these trees.

THE TREES FOR TROOPS program continues to be a great success and much appreciated by military families. Over 150 trees were contributed by local farms and their customers and were shipped by Fed Ex from our farm last year. This year the trees will be collected and shipped from another farm—Brown’s Christmas Tree Farm—in this area. You may continue to contribute to this program either through our farm or by contacting www.treesfortroops.org and sending your contribution to the Christmas Spirit Foundation.

We look forward to seeing you this year!

The Worthington’s