If you love getting a fresh Christmas tree for your living room each year, you’ve probably wondered if it’s possible to grow one yourself. Do you need the acreage of a whole Christmas tree farm, or ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Christmas trees are planted every spring in either March or April and the trees first start dormant. As temperatures warm throughout the spring, they begin to come out of ...

Lines of Christmas trees on a farm in Oregon with fall foliage and mountains in the background - Susan Ridley/Shutterstock A Christmas tree is a broad term for more than 600 species of Conifer trees, ...

As Bob Schrader approached retirement, he wasn't planning to take it easy. For 37 years, Schrader worked as the assistant director of the center for agriculture at UMass Cooperative Extension, part of ...

It takes a lot of work to grow a Christmas tree. “We are growing a crop that takes seven to 10 years until you can harvest it,” said Beth Bossio at Quarter Pine Tree Farm in Pennsylvania. “Every year, ...

While Christmas Trees are sold for barely a month out of the year, they require nearly a decade of care before they’re ready for ornaments.

US HOW NEW HAMPSHIRE CHRISTMAS TREE FARMS ARE PREPARING FOR FUTURE EXTREMES. FROM A VERY WET SPRING TO A FLASH DROUGHT THIS FALL, THIS YEAR’S WEATHER WAS TOUGH ON NEW HAMPSHIRE’S CHRISTMAS TREES. I ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. The Christmas tree feels like a tradition from time immemorial—and in some ways it is.

Learn seven ways to reuse your Christmas tree, rather than sending it straight to the trash heap.