Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
About a year ago, after visiting our 2nd different Christmas tree farm in 2 years, and being disappointed in the selection and overall family experience. My fiancé' says, "What do you think about growing Christmas trees?" I said "Sure, why not." Being that both of us are of the GO BIG OR GO HOME mindset, we decided to go all in. Starting with planting 1,100 Christmas trees this past spring..... mostly by ourselves, mostly with a shovel, mostly in muddy ground ....... we had not killed each other after a month! Guess if a couple can live through that they can handle a lot of things! Just in time to do all the fruit tree spring work. We decided that we were going to need a building to sell the trees out of, along with a list of other uses. So we had Morton Buildings construct a 24' x 80' building for us. It was supposed to be finished by the end of June. Which ended up being completed in September. We are doing all the interior work ourselves so we spent a lot of hours in October trying to get as much accomplished as we could. Since it takes 7-8 years for most Christmas trees to reach saleable size we decided we might as well test the waters and start with a 140 pre-cut trees to try and sell this year. We sold over half of them the first weekend and actually made a mid-week run to some friends of ours to get more trees. They have a Christmas tree farm and were unable to open this year due to several of their workers testing positive for Covid right before Thanksgiving. Our older kids and a good family friend made the selling part workable this year, but we will need to bring on some young muscle as we grow in the future. As of a couple of days ago we are sold out for 2020! Amidst dealing with all the Covid crap, our youngest getting diagnosed with type-1 diabetes and the rest of 2020's greatness we are feeling blessed as this year comes to a close. Christmas tree growers are a funny breed in today's world, everyone one we have dealt with has been unbelievably supportive and happy that we are joining their ranks. It is a business that requires a lot of sweat equity, luckily we are still able to supply that.