Source:  NCSU, 11/12/21



North Carolina’s Christmas tree growers are busy harvesting to prepare to supply roughly 5 million trees by Thanksgiving ¬– hustling to meet a demand that experts think will be high this year. “North Carolina customers should consider themselves among the luckiest in the United States,” said Travis Birdsell, an extension agent for NC State who works directly with Christmas tree farmers in the state. “They’re close to one of the largest Christmas tree growing regions in the United States. A lot of the stores are supplied directly by growers, so they have a direct supply of trees.”

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