It’s opening week for five area Christmas tree farms that offer the experience of choosing and cutting a tree straight from the field.
In Kansas, tree growers primarily raise pine trees in their fields and ship in other evergreen varieties, such as firs and spruces, from out-of-state farms for live-tree options for consumers.
“Each free farm is generally going to have one or two or three (pine-based) varieties that they prefer to grow and have the best success with, so the type of tree that you’re going to find is going to vary a little bit from tree farm to tree farm,” said Matthew McKernan, a horticulture agent with the K-State Research and Extension Center in Sedgwick County…