Christmas
Christmas trees selling fast in frazzled market
Despite feverish sales, Rick Magill used a single word to describe this year’s Christmas tree market — “worse.” Friendship Trees in southern Anne Arundel County, Md., opened this year, as it usually does, on Black Friday. The farm closed almost as fast as it...
Christmas tree crop expected to improve in Del., Md.
Despite feverish sales, Rick Magill used a single word to describe this year’s Christmas tree market — “worse.”Friendship Trees in southern Anne Arundel County, Md., opened this year, as it usually does, on Black Friday. The farm closed almost as fast as it...
Pine Hill Farm began with a simple act of kindness
WINCHESTER, Va. — Seeing a Christmas tree grown on their farm shining on the lawn of the Virginia Capitol probably was not something Ron and Roberta Clouse dreamed of in 1977 when they helped a FFA member. The Clouse family was in Richmond Dec. 1 as Gov....
Christmas tree farms producing green in Virginia
Hundreds of farmers grow Christmas trees in Virginia. These farms are scattered throughout the Commonwealth. “Virginia-grown Christmas trees are a highly sought-after item this time of year,” said Michael Wallace, director of communications of the Virginia...
Live Christmas tree availability on the move in Va.
The live Christmas tree industry is enjoying an increasing demand for its product in the midst of a diminished number of trees this year. Growers are expecting to run out of trees in the early weeks of the season due to this demand.Dr. Earl Deal, a veteran...
Providing for agriculture’s future (Credit Corner)
(Editor’s note: Charles Wright IV is the chairman of the Farm Credit Foundation for Agricultural Advancement) With the USDA estimating nearly 60,000 job openings in agriculture every year, it’s important that our youth understand the many diverse...
Christmas tree industry booming in pandemic
Gary Palmer hoped to debut Holiday Memories Farm’s new Christmas tree operation in 2020. The West River, Md., farmer and former firefighter had spent six years preparing for his inaugural season. In addition to tree sales he envisioned a farm Santa and...
Hillcrest, Trail Nurseries provide poinsettia support
“We do what we do well, like grow vegetables from seed,” said Carrie Engel, greenhouse manger at Valley View Farms in Cockeysville, Md. “Why grow something when you can get it just as well from other places?,” she asked referring to the additional...
Hirt operation added to Carroll Barn Quilt Trail
WESTMINSTER, Md. — On Nov. 5, just in time for the 2020 Christmas season and more than 40 years after the first trees were planted by Clyde Hirt’s father, Hirt Tree Farm became the 37th farm added to the Carroll County Barn Quilt Trail, a collaborative...
Payne finds ‘the best’ evergreens for Baltimore region
ELKRIDGE, Md. — “Andy Payne’s a great guy. In my opinion, he has the best wholesale trees and wreaths in the area,” said Mike Healy, owner of Greenway Farms in Cooksville, Md., who purchases cut Christmas trees and plain wreaths from Payne Christmas...
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