Source: Dillon Davis, ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, 11/23/17


Amid a nationwide shortage of Christmas trees attributed to the economic recession of the late 2000s, several Western North Carolina tree farms are reporting price increases up to 10 percent this year. "There were a lot of tree growers that went out of business (during the recession)," Dee Clark, owner of C&G Nursery in Newland, said Tuesday. "That leads to an overall shortage across the industry. 

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