December 21st, 2011
latimes: Choose-and-cut Christmas tree farms are rooted in simpler times: The nostalgic appeal of sawing a tree in the woods lives on, but modern economic pressures are taking a toll on growers. Photo: Ron Ballauf grows Christmas trees at Rose Acre Tree Farm in Felton, Calif. Credit: Shmuel Thaler / Santa Cruz Sentinel i spent sunday evening building my grandmother’s artificial christmas tree, a $30 metal and plastic “fir” from kmart. that would be a rather normal sentence if it weren’t for the fact that my grandmother owns a christmas tree farm in new york. “This business does not pass easily from one generation to another. You have to have it in your blood.”

latimes:

Choose-and-cut Christmas tree farms are rooted in simpler times: The nostalgic appeal of sawing a tree in the woods lives on, but modern economic pressures are taking a toll on growers.

Photo: Ron Ballauf grows Christmas trees at Rose Acre Tree Farm in Felton, Calif. Credit: Shmuel Thaler / Santa Cruz Sentinel

i spent sunday evening building my grandmother’s artificial christmas tree, a $30 metal and plastic “fir” from kmart. that would be a rather normal sentence if it weren’t for the fact that my grandmother owns a christmas tree farm in new york.

“This business does not pass easily from one generation to another. You have to have it in your blood.”

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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