Happy New Year!

Thank you for another wonderful holiday season. We wish you all the best for the coming year and look forward to seeing you again in 2011!

Open for the 2010 Christmas Tree Season!

We think our customers are great. Thanks for the smiles.

We hope you enjoy your natural, unsprayed Christmas tree and have a happy holiday season!

Opening Friday, November 26, 2010

Tis the season! Or at least, 'tis very nearly the season. We open in just a few days! Our trees enjoyed the wet spring and summer. Many of the nobles that were on the small side last year are now tall enough to touch the ceiling, and if your ceiling is high our bigger trees have kept growing too. As always, they are unsprayed and unshaped for a naturally healthy and beautiful Christmas tree.

Craig has done more work on the trails over the year, but don't forget your boots because the grounds are still raw in many places. Don't forget your camera too, because the view is gorgeous. If you do forget your camera, just ask and we can snap a couple photos and email them your way.
We are excited for our third Christmas season at our farm. It seems that we look forward to it more each year. We feel lucky to share this mix of nature and holiday spirit with so many people. Hope to see you soon!

Early Snow

What a beautiful and welcome gift the weather brought. We actually ended up with quite a bit more snow than these photos show...

Days like this just feel special.

First Frost

This evening when we went on our night walk the moon was full and there was a familiar crunch from frozen grass under our feet. Winter is definitely coming soon, with more freezing temperatures in the forecast.

We open in less than one week and hopefully there will be many days as beautiful as today for folks to come up, hike around, and get their Christmas trees.

Fall is here, Winter is near.

Summer came and went, bringing beauty to our farm in many ways. Sun and warmth were welcome but fall is our favorite season so for us, things get even better as the air turns crisp. We love seeing the leaves change colors and feeling them crunch under our feet as we walk in the woods. The light peeks through the trees at a lower angle that emphasizes their height and majesty.
And there is harvest time. We enjoyed plums, figs, and blackberries in the summer, but the most delicious and bountiful crop this year was apples, particularly from our biggest tree. One of the littler trees that was fully covered in blackberries until Craig discovered it and cleared it from the vines the first year we were here also had a bumper crop. Getting the farm back in order is lots of work - a slow but very rewarding process. We were also excited when Craig discovered that we have three different kinds of grapes growing here. Last year he put fencing in around the grape vines so they did not get eaten by the deer. They were in much better shape to produce fruit this year and it was a surprise to see fruits in red and purple. Thankfully, Craig noticed when the robins started eating the grapes at a remarkable pace so he picked the rest so we could enjoy them too. We even had homemade raisins for the first time.
Now, one week before Thanksgiving, we are getting ready for Christmas tree season. It is such a special time of year for us and we truly look forward to opening our farm and sharing the season with the folks who come here as part of their holiday tradition. We love autumn, but we still find ourselves looking forward to winter.

Spring and Summer, Rain and Shine

We sure did have a long rainy season this year! Hopefully the 200+ noble fir seedlings that Craig planted appreciated the water, as our cherry trees sure did not. In fact, the birds just finished eating the last of the few cherries from the trees. I think we ate a total of 5 that made it to ripeness before falling or being consumed by our flying friends. Plums, figs, and apples are looking promising and all the plants are enjoying the warm sun now, so hopefully they will ripen well. Craig also fenced in and planted a garden so we are looking forward to harvesting veggies very soon. And it's not just the plants that are delighting in the weather. All of us are, including Al and Paco who had their first shearing in May.

Freshly sheared:
Signs of spring:
Summer blooms: