Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 11/22/20

Much like toilet paper, yeast and freezers before them, Christmas trees could be hard to score this year because of the pandemic. There’s a longstanding shortage in Canada’s supply of fresh trees that when coupled with an anticipated heightened demand could leave some families feeling like victims of the Grinch. “It is an odd year,” said Shirley Brennan, executive director of the Christmas Tree Farmers of Ontario, an industry umbrella group. “We knew in August we would be out of trees . . . (our farmers) would sell all the trees they possibly could this year.”

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