Plants Beautiful Christmas Trees

Forest had some time off recently and the weather was fairly nice, so we decided to go out and find our tree. We still have yet to set it up, but here is some photo blogging of our trip out to the fields.

The kids are ready to go! Come on mom!

We headed out [...]

Yesterday Forest and I woke up before 5 and were talking about all the cooking we had planned for the day. Of course, we probably wouldn’t have been awake that early had the kids not also been awake. But it was fun to start planning early. We got right up and started [...]

This is our first year that we will be opening up our gift shop for Christmas in July! The place looks beautiful after we put a few days into re-organizing things.
We have cold apple cider and cookies in there and several new things that we’ve been collecting since last Christmas. And surprise, surprise [...]

Because the weekends are so busy this time of year, the employees usually take days off in the middle of the week.  So this week when Forest, my husband, had Wednesday and Thursday off we decided it was time to get our Christmas tree.  That and the weather was getting colder and we didn’t really [...]

During the summer we get shipments of seedling trees from other nurseries so we can plant and raise them into the beautiful trees you see out in the fields. They were all so cute! And I was slightly shocked when I was told we’d be selling live christmas trees this year! “What! [...]

It seems to me like this time of year always catches us by surprise.  There is always so much to do and so little time to do it in.  Today there is a gaggle of people working in the wreathroom, making and decorating wreaths, and making garland.  I’m sure they are pretty happy to be [...]

I found this on one of the sites we’re associated with. The Christmas Tree Farm Network and thought I would post it. I’ve actually found several articles recently that talks about real vs plastic. I’ll tell you, when I was growing up we had a plastic tree (my husband’s family are the [...]