Friday, December 4, 2009

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.

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 4, 2009 at 1:01 PM

    Oak Ridge Tree Farm
    402 Coleman Road
    Middletown

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  2. AnonymousDecember 4, 2009 at 2:03 PM

    Thank you -- one of the reasons I am a MiddletownEye reader is the useful, practical and locally focused information provided by its contributors.

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  3. JacobMDecember 4, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    We just got a great tree from Dumas Tree Farm: http://www.ctchristmastree.org/dumas_09.html

    Operators are very nice, also.

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