Since 2012, hundreds of Christmas tree farms across the country have closed. I drove to Indiana, where the problem is especially pronounced, to ask farmers what's going wrong.A lot, it seems.Many tree farmers are growing older and choosing to retire. In Indiana, more than 40% of Christmas tree farms
Since 2012, hundreds of Christmas tree farms across the country have closed. I drove to Indiana, where the problem is especially pronounced, to ask farmers what’s going wrong.Many tree farmers are growing older and choosing to retire. In Indiana, more than 40% of Christmas tree farms have disappeared since 2002. The farmers who remain told me they’re a misunderstood bunch.
At her tranquil farm, needles from Frasier firs crunched underfoot and filled the air with a woody scent. Business has boomed this year, partly because two nearby farms shut down. The job doesn’t appeal to everybody. Patience is essential. It usually takes at least six years before the trees that farmers plant each spring are tall enough to sell. And not all of them are pretty enough to end up in a living room.Summer means time to trim. Tree farmers use sharp, long knives, trimming each tree with precise, upward sweeps of the blade. They spend entire days out in the fields, which have neat rows of trees carefully marked by the year they will eventually be sold.
Alternating droughts and floods in recent years have made business difficult. This year, the Wendts had so few trees to sell that they opened for a single weekend.
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