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Christmas Tree Farms

Friday, December 7, 2012

Map: Where You Can Cut Down Your Own Christmas Tree

Patch has assembled a list of local tree farms where you can find the perfect tree for your home this holiday season.

Click on the link for more information about each tree farm.  Click on "view larger map" for location and directions. Allison's Christmas Tree Farm, 121 Allison Lane, Aliquippa, PA 15001 Saws Available, Free Shaking and Baling of trees for ease in Transport, Stand-Straight Tree Drilling and Stands. Choose-and-Cut, Precut, and Dug trees. Grupp's Christmas Trees, 147 Grupp Lane, Harmony, PA  Offers six varieties of trees that you can cut yourself. They are Scotch Pine, White Pine, Blue Spruce, Douglas Fir, Canaan Fir and Concolor Fir. We also have a large selection of pre-cut Fraser Fir trees.  Bertovich Evergreen Christmas Tree Farm, 1031 Willowbrook Drive, Industry, PA 15052 Christmas trees—You choose and we cut, wagon rides, free tree …

Cindy Cusic Micco

1:13 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012

Brian—Thanks for the suggestion. I just added them to the list. Looks like a fun place to go. The photos on the website are beautiful too. - Cindy   more ›

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Around the Rivers

Around the Rivers: Christmas Tree Farm a Family Tradition

The Nutbrown family has been selling Christmas trees on their farm for nearly 50 years.

Around the Rivers features stories from nearby communities. This one was originally published on Chartiers Valley Patch. When Henry Nutbrown’s parents wanted to make some extra money to put him and his two siblings through college, they had three choices on their small farm: Breed chinchillas, sell earthworms or grow Christmas trees. “I’m eternally grateful my mother decided Christmas trees over the earthworms and chinchillas,” Nutbrown said of his family farm’s tradition. Emmanuel and Mary Nutbrown moved to the Collier Township farm in 1939 from Carnegie to try something different. They planted 100 Scotch pine seedlings in single rows on the small farm in 1958 and continued planting over the next decade before they could sell their first …

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