Humming Grove Farm

Welcome to Humming Grove Farm

We opened for tagging trees on Saturday, November 2.  Many of the salable trees were tagged last year and on our first weekend of tagging this year.  Over our first two days of sales, most of the salable quality trees were either themselves tagged or have been harvested.  Unless you are looking for a bargain tree with “character” (some aesthetic defects) or a smaller tree, you will be disappointed by the remaining untagged trees.  We do encourage customers to tag trees one or two years ahead to reserve a tree of the height you wish in the future.

Truth in advertising:  we no longer have the oversized trees featured in the video posted on our web site.  The video was made 3 years ago.

We sell choose-and-cut Christmas trees, wreaths, beeswax candles, and earrings made with the most beautiful beetle in North America, the dogbane beetle, which we grow on the farm. 

Species we grow are Austrian pine, balsam fir, Canaan fir, Colorado blue spruce, concolor fir, Fraser fir, Korean fir, Korean x corkbark hybrid firs, Norway spruce, white spruce, and white pine.  Other species that will take a few more years are balsam x Veitch fir, Serbian spruce, and Douglas-fir.  We may have a greater variety of species than any other Christmas tree farm in New England.  Visit the farm to learn about these other unusual trees.  We try to grow trees based upon their natural tendencies.  Some species grow narrow (Korean x corkbark fir) and some naturally grow fat (white spruce, Korean fir).  There are trees to suit nearly anyone’s tastes.

Our price is $70 for full-sized trees.  Table-top sized trees are $60.  The reason there isn’t a larger price break is that well-formed small trees can take as long to grow as the larger trees.  There are a few trees with aesthetic defects that will be individually tagged with lower prices.

We prefer to cut your tree for you (we have irrigation tubing that we don’t want customers to cut)!  If you bring your own chain saw, you are not allowed to use it on our farm until after Rich does a safety check on your equipment.  There will be a charge of $2 for anyone cutting their own tree who also cuts the irrigation line.  Play it safe, have Rich cut your tree for you.

We can bale many trees.  Trees that are too fat to fit through the baler can be baled by hand.  That requires “audience participation” because it requires 2 – 3 people to help roll the tree and feed the twine to the baling crew.  

We can help place trees on top of vehicles, but you may help by passing rope through the interior cabin of your vehicle.  We will not place trees on the top of any car with a moon roof or sun roof.  Please bring a different vehicle if your car or SUV has such a feature.  We charge $5 for sturdy cord to secure your tree if you do not bring your own.

Hours:

Tree harvest starts the Friday after Thanksgiving; unlike previous years, the only Friday we will be open for tree harvest is the day after Thanksgiving, Friday, November 29.  Otherwise, we are open Saturdays 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., and Sundays 1 – 4 p.m.  Customers with special needs are welcome to call to arrange an appointment for cutting trees at other times, if needed.