The economics of Christmas trees
Story Date: 12/8/2020

 

Source: Zachary Crockett, THE HUSTLE, 12/5/20



On a frosty day in November, Beth Ann Bossio walks through the brilliant green rows of Douglas firs at Quarter Pine Farm in Smithfield, Pennsylvania, and marks hundreds of trees with price tags. As the family farm’s head of sales, Bossio has followed the journey of these trees for nearly a decade, from seedlings to 7-foot-tall evergreens. Now, at long last, they’re ready to be sold as Christmas trees.

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