Neal and Marie Bork
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New Opening Day for 2007 If you prefer to wait until closer to the Christmas season to make your visit to the tree farm, we will be opening one week later this year. Our opening week-end will be the Friday-Sunday after Thanksgiving-November 23-25. We'll have the flocked trees and wreaths, green wreaths, swags, garland, cemetery decor and gift shop snowmwn and santas waiting for you. The cider will be hot and the barn will be warm. |
Country Pines Tree Farm is a member of the Iowa Christmas Tree Growers Association. We have been members since our first year of planting in 1990. We have 5 acres of Christmas trees planted on our acreage. Planting of the 8"-12" seedlings begins as soon as the frost is out. We use a gas powered auger to dig the holes and then hand plant each seedling. We plant about 500 each spring.
We plant seedlings in a seed bed to acclimate them to our soil and to give them extra care to get them started growing. We mainly have Black Hills Spruce and Fraser Fir trees in the seed bed but also some scotch pines. Fir and spruce trees take 3-4 years longer to grow to the height we sell for Christmas Trees.
Family is an important part to the holiday season for us, and ours can be found helping all throughout the farm. Kennedy is 5 and Kannon is 2 so Grandpa and Grandma have lots of extra workers during this busy time of the year.
Amy, Kennedy, Chris and Kannon Bork
Mark and Courtney Clark
Neal and Marie Bork