{"id":26,"date":"2017-04-30T01:16:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T01:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:30:07","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Humming Grove Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Humming Grove Farm, Broad Brook, CT\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NkSSuZrm0EE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/home\/wreaths-for-sale\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-236 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_4388-e1574771025527-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_4388-e1574771025527-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_4388-e1574771025527-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_4388-e1574771025527-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Welcome to Humming Grove Farm<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><b>We have had a wonderful season this year.\u00a0 Many of the salable trees were tagged last year, and nearly all salable trees have been sold.\u00a0 We are closed now, except for the two tagged trees that remain to be cut this year.\u00a0 Thank you to all our customers who appreciate our farm and are supporting our efforts to grow beautiful Christmas trees.\u00a0 We will be open for next year&#8217;s tagging season on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 1 p.m.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Truth in advertising:\u00a0 we no longer have the oversized trees featured in the video posted on our web site.\u00a0 The video was made 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We sell choose-and-cut Christmas trees, wreaths, swags, <a href=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/candles-and-honey\/\">beeswax candles<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/home\/earrings\/\">earrings<\/a> made with the most beautiful beetle in North America, the dogbane beetle, which we grow on the farm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Species we grow are Austrian pine, balsam fir, balsam x Veitch fir, Canaan fir, Colorado blue spruce, concolor fir, Fraser fir, Korean fir, Korean x balsam fir, Korean x corkbark firs, Momi fir, Norway spruce, white spruce, and white pine.\u00a0 There may be one or two Douglas-fir available in 2026.\u00a0 Other species that will take a few more years are Serbian spruce, and Nordmann fir.\u00a0 We may have a greater variety of species than any other Christmas tree farm in New England.\u00a0 Visit the farm to learn about these other unusual trees.\u00a0 We try to grow trees based upon their natural tendencies.\u00a0 Some species grow narrow (Korean x corkbark fir) and some naturally grow fat (white spruce, Korean fir).\u00a0 There are trees to suit nearly anyone&#8217;s tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Our price is $75 for full-sized trees.\u00a0 Table-top sized trees are $60.\u00a0 The reason there isn&#8217;t a larger price break is that well-formed small trees can take as long to grow as the larger trees.\u00a0 There are a few trees with aesthetic defects that may be individually tagged with lower prices.<\/p>\n<p>We prefer to cut your tree for you (we have irrigation tubing that we don&#8217;t want customers to cut)!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 There will be a charge of $2 for anyone cutting their own tree who also cuts the irrigation line.\u00a0 Play it safe, have Rich cut your tree for you.<\/p>\n<p>We can bale many trees.\u00a0 Trees that are too fat to fit through the baler can be baled by hand.\u00a0 We have a new method to bale standing trees before cutting that doesn&#8217;t require the &#8220;audience participation&#8221; of 2 &#8211; 3 people to help roll the tree and feed the twine to the baling crew.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We can help place trees on top of vehicles, but you may help by passing rope through the interior cabin of your vehicle.\u00a0 We will not place trees on the top of any car with a moon roof or sun roof.\u00a0 Please bring a different vehicle if your car or SUV has such a feature.\u00a0 We charge $5 for sturdy cord to secure your tree if you do not bring your own.<\/p>\n<p>Hours:<\/p>\n<p>Tree harvest starts the Friday after Thanksgiving; unlike previous years, the <strong><em>only<\/em><\/strong> Friday we will be open for tree harvest is the day after Thanksgiving, Friday, November 27.\u00a0 Otherwise, we are open Saturdays 9 a.m. &#8211; 4 p.m., and Sundays 1 &#8211; 4 p.m.\u00a0 Customers with special needs are welcome to call to arrange an appointment for cutting trees at other times, if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" src=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/07_NEW_120519JS09.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/07_NEW_120519JS09.jpg 800w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/07_NEW_120519JS09-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/07_NEW_120519JS09-768x483.jpg 768w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/07_NEW_120519JS09-640x402.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Richard S. Cowles, an Agricultural Scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and owner of Humming Grove Farm in East Windsor, poses with a pair of home-made wreaths in a field of Christmas trees on his farm. <br>Photo credit: Jim Shannon, <em>Republican-American<\/em>, Dec. 6, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Humming-Grove-Farm_109_0401_ortho_FULL-2amedium-1024x601.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Humming-Grove-Farm_109_0401_ortho_FULL-2amedium-1024x601.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Humming-Grove-Farm_109_0401_ortho_FULL-2amedium-300x176.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Humming-Grove-Farm_109_0401_ortho_FULL-2amedium-768x451.jpg 768w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Humming-Grove-Farm_109_0401_ortho_FULL-2amedium-1536x902.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Humming-Grove-Farm_109_0401_ortho_FULL-2amedium-640x376.jpg 640w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Humming-Grove-Farm_109_0401_ortho_FULL-2amedium.jpg 1845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Here is a bird&#8217;s eye view of the farm!  I love the abstract geometric pattern made by the Christmas trees, the wood chip mulch, and the grassy drive rows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"515\" src=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Geometric-1024x515.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Geometric-1024x515.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Geometric-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Geometric-768x386.jpg 768w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Geometric-1536x772.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Geometric-640x322.jpg 640w, http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Geometric.jpg 1801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Humming Grove Farm We have had a wonderful season this year.\u00a0 Many of the salable trees were tagged last year, and nearly all salable trees have been sold.\u00a0 We are closed now, except for the two tagged trees that remain to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/humminggrove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}