Buy Local: Christmas Trees

One of the magical moments of the year for me is to walk with my family through a field of trees in the crisp early winter air to select our Christmas Tree. Although my children cannot help but enter into a vigorous debate about which tree is the most perfect of all (OK, my wife and I do too), when we finally pick out one to make ours, the excited joy of bringing home the tree settles us all into peace and harmony.

A Christmas Tree is probably one of the easiest agricultural products to buy locally, there are at least three farms in Middletown and several in neighboring communities which sell trees. All of them will be happy to provide help in cutting, wrapping, and loading the tree on your car. Many of them also sell wreaths.

The following listing includes farms which are in an on-line listing of Christmas Tree Farmers in Middlesex County. There are other farmers in the area who sell small numbers and don't advertise (the Atkins and Footit farm is one such), if you have a favorite not on the list, let us know about it in a comment.

Middletown:

• Indian Hill Brook Tree Farm, 614 Bow Lane
• Jones Tree Farm, 402 Coleman Road
• Atkins Street and Footit Drive

Rockfall

• Connwood Foresters

Durham

• Craftsbury Christmas Farm
• Dumas Tree Farm
• Herzig Family Tree Farm
• Miller Tree Farm