Gompert worked fast for the timed period, and all of the trees he cut were destroyed. The trees were small, 1 to 2 feet ...

Backyard Farmer looks at potential problems with trees and more. Backyard Farmer looks at potential problems with trees and new hardscape trends in the horticulture industry. The Backyard Farmer ...

WEST GREENWICH – On one side of Big John Leyden’s Tree Farm & Nursery is a pond that’s used to water some of the thousands of Christmas trees growing there. When Tim Leyden checked on it this past ...

It’s that time of year: Families are heading to farms all across New Hampshire and Vermont to pick out a Christmas tree or cut their own in a New England tradition straight out of a Norman Rockwell ...

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 ...

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 ...