Christmas Tree Shops: Cut-Your-Own Farms Have Wide Variety, Fun Family Atmosphere, And Heavenly Smell
JACK CORAGGIO
Special to The Courant
November 28, 2009
Like many agricultural parcels, the Jones Family Farms offers a small bevy of various crops for harvest. Through the summer and into the fall, people can pick strawberries, then blueberries and then pumpkins.
But when December sneaks in, that's when the real cash crop is harvested. Indeed, while the entire plot reaches a massive 400 acres, exactly half is dedicated to Christmas trees.
The aggregate farm is divided into three distinct sections. On the portion dedicated to trees, six varieties are to be discovered. But the farmhands advise, because the place is so big, that visitors wear comfortable footwear, bundle up and be sure to get there long before sundown, because it could take awhile to decide on that perfect tree.