'Panic buying' Christmas trees: Farms run out, lots close early as people load up on cheer
Story Date: 12/11/2020

 

Source: Mackensy Lunsford, ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, 12/10/20

A cold drizzle fell on Boyd's Christmas Trees, but the holiday spirit hummed along apace at the Swannanoa River Road tree lot, where Rhonda Heath said she's had the best season in more than a decade. "With COVID being on this year, I've had customers tell me they wanted something happy in the house," she said. "They want something pretty to look at, and some that usually do artificial, this year they wanted a live tree."

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