First comes Thanksgiving, then comes the rush to buy a Christmas tree. Teresa Meier with Meier Horse Shoe Pines in southeast Missouri’s Jackson is getting ready for opening day on Friday.
“We always open the fields the day after Thanksgiving,” she told Missourinet. “It’s pretty much a mad house around here on the first weekend. We have tractors and wagons that will take you to the field. They circle constantly so you don’t have to wait very long for a ride. We have about 20-acres of trees. The trees that we want to sell will have a price tag on them.”
Meier Horse Shoe Pines has been providing the Cape Girardeau region with a unique holly jolly holiday experience since 1988.
“We have guides in the field that will cut your tree down,” she said. “All you have to do is point it out and then we will load up the trees, give you a little part of the tag to bring down to the Christmas shop, and then in the meantime, they’ll bring the trees down, we shake them and clean them. We’ll drill them if you have the certain kind of stand with the pin in the middle that we sell here, and then we will put them through our netting.”
Meier said that her farm is only open a few weekends, beginning with this Friday’s opening day.
“We have over 1,300 trees available in the field. But when we start to get down to where it’s, you know, 6-foot or less trees, of course, we have to close…so yeah, definitely after the first weekend of December give us a call before you make a long trip,” Meier said.
Her farm grows Scotch Pine, Norway Spruce, White Pine, and Loblolly Pitch Pine, in addition to selling pre-cut Fraser Fir. Her farm also sells freshly made wreaths.
Missouri is home to dozens of Christmas tree farms.
To find a Christmas tree farm near you, visit MissouriChristmasTrees.org.
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