Source:Rusty Jacobs, WUNC, 10/23/18


The North Carolina Christmas tree supply might be a little tighter this year thanks to a variety of market factors. The 2008 economic downturn slowed sales and that meant less space to plant new trees, which take 7 to 10 years to grow. "You know, if you had two or three years of slower sales, that backs up your inventory just like traffic would back up on the highway," said Jeff Owen, a Christmas tree specialist with the N.C. State University Extension.

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