Christmas Trees in California Are Green in More Ways Than One
San Diego, CA—With the Christmas season just around the corner, the Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree Association is busily preparing to harvest this year’s crop of environmentally safe, family grown trees.
More than 90 percent of the Christmas trees purchased in California each year come from Washington and Oregon. Beginning in mid-November, farmers will start harvesting these trees—which are farmed like any other sustainable crop—by selecting those trees that have reached maturity. Many farms will be employing the help of helicopters and refrigerated trucks to ensure the freshness of each tree being collected.
“This is an exciting time of year for us,” said Gayla Hansen, Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree Association president. “This is when we finally get to send out our trees that we’ve carefully tended to for so many years to be the focal point of families’ Christmas celebrations.”
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oskar8
posted on September 29th, 2009 at 2:26 am
Now in the era of wide global crisis trees growingis a good idea for a business
Jen
posted on November 9th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I have a small tree that I bought last year to use for our upcoming holiday celebrations. But it’s not very large and the more I think of it the more I realize that I love the tradition of going to the tree farm each year with the kids. Glad to read that it’s considered a sustainable crop.