LATE BREAKING NEWS

Sunday 12-2-2012 - WEATHER ALERT

The road into our farm is seasonably good now but the weather today, forecast rain this afternoon and evening which may freeze on contact with currently frozen surfaces, may make travel to or from our farm difficult. Please come earlier in the day and give us a call if you want the current road conditions here at the farm as we know them. Sometimes the hill leading in or out of our farm is worse than the road in front of the Christmas Barn. We will be urging the Brookfield road crew to spread sand and things may be just fine. Our number is 802-276-3382. Posted December 2, 2012 at 10:30 a.m.

FRESH SNOW: (11/29/12) The night of November 29th brought a blanket of fresh snow to provide holiday atmosphere to the family Christmas tree excursion at our farm. We don’t know how long it will last but approximately 2.5 inches is just about right, enough for the holiday spirit without making trekking around the farm difficult.

Our sign with flag at the corner of Twin Ponds Road and East Street.	The entrance to our parking lot.
Getting the stove going in the Christmas Barn on an crisp early morning.	The Christmas Barn with the bargain tree rack in front.

2012 WHOLESALE SEASON COMPLETED: (11/2012) We have just concluded our 2012 wholesale brush season. Approximately 12 tons (500+- fifty pound bundles) were cut and sold for wreaths, garlands and other holiday decorations. Our brush season starts only after a series of hard frosts and must end before Thanksgiving so that we can start our Choose & Cut season the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Our tractor is arriving behind the pile of boughs with another tree to harvest boughs from.	A pile of boughs with John cutting more boughs off from a tree.
The guys finishing the tying of a bundle in preparation to be put in the trailer.
John placing boughs into one of our bundle makers.

Christmas Tree Weekends available from Thanksgiving to December 23 at our Twin Ponds Cottage. Take two nights and three days to relax and get your Christmas tree in Vermont. Click here for more details and rates.

Colorado Blue Spruce Boughs are available in 2012. Blue Spruce boughs are prickly but its blue color is wonderful for a wide variety of holiday decorations. It can be used as an accent in Balsam Fir or Fraser Fir wreaths, garlands, swags, kissing balls, and outdoor arrangements. It is particularly good in outdoor decorations because it does not show road dust as much as other boughs.

Large Trees from 9 feet to 20 feet are available. Contact us for prices and availability.

Balsam Fir and Fraser Fir Boughs for 2012. Unfortunately we have had to raise prices to adjust for a number of price increases that we have received. See Bough Price List page. We suggest that you place your order soon to ensure that we can fill your order. Last year we had to turn away potential customers because they applied too late.

More Trees Planted: In September we planted over 1,700 trees (1,000 Fraser Fir and 700 Balsam Fir) to ensure we have a good crop coming along. (See Photo Gallery for before and after pictures).