OH, CHRISTMAS TREE!
but he is very much into Christmas. He finds joy in selling his trees to people and seeing their faces light up, almost as bright as the decorations that will be placed on them.
Despite the influx of plastic trees, he said that there are still many persons who prefer the real thing.
REAL TREES NEEDED
“You see the people that are in those upscale areas, they don’t want an artificial tree. They need a natural tree. So even though they might have a store close to them, they buy a real tree from us. So we have to constantly keep planting for those clients,” Rudolph said. A Christmas tree typically sells for $1,000 per foot. The average tree is four feet long, and takes up to three years to get to that stage. There are some farmers, however who grow monster trees, like Smith. He said that the soil makes a difference.
“Me have a 20-foot tree to deliver Saturday in Montego Bay,” Smith told THE WEEKEND STAR.
Every year, at the start of December, the farmers make their way down from the hills to sell their trees.
“From Friday (today), Half-Way Tree a go block off with trees,” Smith said.
However, even as he and other farmers head to town with Christmas trees, Smith dreads that hustlers have cut into their business.
“It mash up fi we market as a farmer cause we plant it an you have some people come in, and because someone just plant you