{"id":5190,"date":"2015-11-28T11:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2015-11-28T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:04:52","slug":"where-does-your-live-christmas-tree-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/11\/where-does-your-live-christmas-tree-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does your live Christmas tree come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen quite a few pictures this weekend on my friends’ Facebook accounts showing them decorating Christmas trees for the season. \u00a0Although I suspect most of them are using artificial trees so far ahead of Christmas, plenty of people still like the smell and look of a live tree in their homes. \u00a0Here are two stories about the agriculture of growing and harvesting Christmas trees you might appreciate.<\/p>\n

Fox46<\/em> in Charlotte NC describes the start of the Christmas tree harvesting season and points out that North Carolina is one of the biggest producers of Christmas trees here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AgWeb<\/em> reposted a blog on harvesting Christmas trees by helicopter in Oregon from “Beef, Sheep and Beer” here<\/a>. \u00a0The story describes the life story of a Christmas tree from planting to purchase.<\/p>\n

The map below shows the production of Christmas trees across the US.<\/p>\n

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I’ve seen quite a few pictures this weekend on my friends’ Facebook accounts showing them decorating Christmas trees for the season. \u00a0Although I suspect most of them are using artificial trees so far ahead of Christmas, plenty of people still like the smell and look of a live tree in their homes. \u00a0Here are two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forestry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}