Family Christmas Tree

We have a weekend full of family fun!! Eyes of the Wild will be with us on Saturday from noon until about 2:30 and on Sunday at noon.   Check out their website at EyesWild.com

We are looking forward to seeing you this weekend and helping you find your perfect tree!!

FARM CONDITIONS:  Due to last week’s snow and Friday’s rain, the farm is very muddy.  Please wear the appropriate gear for being outside in the wet and cold weather.  Sturdy boots and winter coats.  We will have a few tents up for shelter while you are waiting.  The “hayride” wagon will be running on a limited schedule due to the ruts in the roads.   Also, when you bring home a wet tree, remember that hot air will dry it out, so leave it in the garage in a bucket of water to dry for a few days.  Do not put your tree in front of a heater or air vent to dry it faster.  This could severely dry the tree out and cause it to loose it’s needles more quickly than normal.

We have got an exciting weekend planned for the whole family this weekend! Eyes of the Wild will be holding 3 shows this weekend.  Two on Saturday and one on Sunday.  Check Facebook for more details! Travis Gale is a talented and knowledgable entertainer; you will learn more than you can imagine in just 45 minutes!!

We have a fabulous local artist coming on Saturday also.  She will have hand-made ornaments on hand made from local pine trees.  Check out her table between 10:30 and 2.  You can get your tree and some gifts for friends and co-workers at the same time!!  What a productive weekend!!

Have you checked out our new videos on YouTube?  The family has posted videos of our favorite Christmas tree species.  Go to YouTube and search Evergreen Valley Christmas Tree Farm.

AND FINALLY!!! —-  There was a great article in the Easton Exprees and on Lehigh Valley Live this Sunday about our Trees for Troops program.  Check it out here:    Lehigh Valley Live

Today was a big day at the farm!  We were busy with many activities.  Trees for Troops started off well.  Our generous customers donated 36 trees to send to military families at Ft. Stewart, Georgia.  Thank you for all of your generosity!

We also had some excitement in the Douglas-fir field!  Greg and Erin took a trip to Evergreen Valley Christmas Tree Farm and got engaged in the field.  Congratulations to the happy couple and we hope to see them again next year and celebrate many anniversaries with them!

We hope we are helping many of you to create fun family memories.

Our first big event this year will be Trees for Troops.  Many of you participated last year and we really appreciate your support of this great program.  In 2011, over 200 trees left Evergreen Valley for a base in Georgia.  We hope to be able to send that many again.  This year, T4T will be the SECOND weekend.  Beginning Friday, November 30th until Sunday, December 2nd, the FedEx truck is scheduled to be at out farm to gather donations. Please come out and support military families at this time of year.  We will all be celebrating, but many of them are worried about loved ones who are deployed or trying to make ends meet on a military salary.  A $30 donation will purchase a whole tree, but any donation will be accepted.   We will also be accepting donations during our opening weekend.  We can’t wait to see you!!

Click here to visit the Trees for Troops home page to learn more.

Do you realize that Christmas is just over 2 months away??  Get started on the shopping for family and friends!  For us, that means that we have just over 1 month to get everything ready for you!! We want you to see the beauty of our farm as soon as you pull in the driveway. On your wagon ride this year, we will show you our new plantings, tell you how our nursery fields are doing and let you explore some new fields.  We are planning a Trees for Troops weekend again and Eyes of the Wild is scheduled to visit on December 8th.  We are training lots of tree cutters to help you choose the perfect tree this year.  Some are returning for their 4th year with us and some are brand new!  Planning for the Christmas tree season is like planning a big party and we can’t wait for the guests to arrive !!

Evergreen Valley is now in the midst of shearing season.  Shearing – different from pruning is used to give the trees their beautiful Christmas-tree shape.  Evergreens that you see in the landscape often have that nice cone shape after many years, but as they are young and  growing, they have many branches of different lengths and if left unsheared, the branches will come in very widely spaced.  By shearing, we can ensure that each year, the trees will retain a nice shape and the branches will lie closer together to give you a nice, full-looking Christmas tree.  Some trees only need a light shear, but others need more.

If you have trees at home that you plan to use for screening, shearing them will help you have a more dense screen of branches to block your view.

Since late June, Andy, Les, Caite, Dakota, Vincent, Austin and Daniel have been working on shearing trees, shaping the tops and making any corrections the tree needs so we will again have beautiful trees this Christmas.

We had a mild winter, so the trees came through very well.  We are a bit worried about our new plantings as this long stretch of drought continues.  The big trees have deeper roots to allow them to better reach water, but our new seedlings are having a tough time.  We will see how they are doing by the end of the summer!