Families often have their traditions surrounding the holidays. Setting aside time to decorate the family’s Christmas tree, drawing names for gifts, or heading out to a local tree lot or tree farm to ...

Living Christmas trees are set out in pots for customers at Second Nature at Reads Creek plant nursery in Readstown, Wisconsin. Some tree farms in the central U.S. are selling more potted Christmas ...

Steve Ottman was born to sell Christmas trees. Ottman, 73, said his family has been growing the holiday staple in Wisconsin since the Great Depression. But now his 50-acre Christmas tree farm just ...

A few years ago, I got a question from a good friend,” Can you buy a tree that is balled and burlapped and plant the tree in a pot and keep the tree in that same pot all year, outside and in front of ...

As Bob Schrader approached retirement, he wasn't planning to take it easy. For 37 years, Schrader worked as the assistant director of the center for agriculture at UMass Cooperative Extension, part of ...

Since he can remember, Don Firebaugh has been growing trees. A jovial man in his 80s with a neatly trimmed white beard, the Rockbridge County Christmas tree grower remembers planting papaya and banana ...

Learn seven ways to reuse your Christmas tree, rather than sending it straight to the trash heap.

While Christmas Trees are sold for barely a month out of the year, they require nearly a decade of care before they’re ready for ornaments.