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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About North Carolina’s Christmas Tree Farms?

Thanks to the hard work of our farmers, North Carolina is the second-largest Christmas tree producer in the nation, filling our homes with the fresh smell of the season.

by Alan Hodge
A Core Sound Christmas: Crab Pot Christmas Trees in Marshallberg, North Carolina
Features

A Core Sound Christmas

With a name like Nick, this Down East businessman may have been destined to invent a new kind of Christmas tree.

by Bill Morris
Western

Kinship Takes Root at Lee’s Trees Choose-and-Cut Farm

Lee and Mannon Eldreth of Lee's Trees in West Jefferson know how to trim a Fraser fir, but what they cherish most are the connections made during Christmas.

by Katie Quine & Erin Reitz
December 2011

Choice Cuts

Holiday and family traditions carry the season at a choose-your-own Christmas tree farm near Boone.

by Our State Staff

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