Are Christmas Tree farms a thing in your country?

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1. >Basically lots whose sole purpose is is to grow and sell Christmas trees.

   We do that with normal trees too so I bet we also do Christmas trees..

2. Yes, but we also import a lot of trees since they grow faster in other countries.

3. Yes, I live near one. Presumably Christmas trees are not shipped long distances so most countries where trees are a tradition must grow them?

4. Sure, how else should we get them? They don’t grow on trees do they? 😉

5. Not really no. Slovenian christmas trees have a special label and the whole thing is managed by The Slovenia Forest Service. The trees are usually cut from overgrown fields, from the areas around power lines and when thinning overgrown young forest on rejuvenated areas.

6. Yes, there are farmers in Ireland with large amounts of land used for growing Christmas trees. Some will have an event for the cutting of the first trees and their sales.

7. Denmark here.
   Yes, some quite big aswell. The “good” trees are being exported, mainly to Germany.

8. The only place where I’ve seen Christmas trees plants is American Christmas movies. With the exception of the biggest trees in public squares every Christmas tree in Italy is plastic.

9. Not that I’m aware of. Most people here just use plastic trees.

10. How else would we have Christmas trees? My grand uncle had one for a time

11. People here use a plastic tree that is kept somewhere in the house for a year.
    I’ve never heard of a tree farm here or someone using a real tree.

12. Yes, we have a farmer in our city that sells christmas trees.

    btw. always take a Nordmann-Tanne

    Edit: or are we talking about different things?

13. In the Ardennes, perhaps, but I think a lot of people nowadays have a plastic tree.

14. There is a state agency that deals with forests and they sell trees to a certain extent, there are also privates that sell them, and ofc the ones that maybe steal them( cut them from the woods directly, however I think that this is not as widespread as it used to be) ). I do think that the vast majority of trees are natural.

15. Looks like there are some dedicated christmas tree farms in the country, but I don’t have a clue how popular they are. Since the whole country is mostly forest, there are suitable trees everywhere. In Northern Finland, state sells “licenses” for invididuals to get a tree by themselves from a state owned forests.

16. I don’t think so,at least not here in the far south.

    Most people have an artificial tree here.And having seen the prices for real ones,I can understand why! They are presumably transported here from somewhere else.

17. There was one [just outside my town](https://www.google.hr/maps/@45.2453715,18.8155191,3a,75y,83.93h,87.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snS0MgzvAuUrdIqVCI3RnCQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=hr), I remember it being full of trees for a couple of years and there are still a few along the fence. They seem to have moved on to growing something else, though. The forests around it are also a tree farm, but they grow oak trees for decades before cutting them down.

18. Tree nurseries exist for all kinds of trees. There’s an area near Hamburg (around the town of Halstenbek) that is famous for it: acres and acres of [all kinds of trees](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/HalstenbekerBaumschulen.jpg/1280px-HalstenbekerBaumschulen.jpg?1639132746524). That’s the main form of agriculture there. Christmas trees are just a tiny part of it, but there are plantations and I’ve seen the harvest.

19. I don’t think so. We use mostly artificial plastic trees.

20. Yes, they are. This one is where we’ll be getting our tree from: http://www.christbaum-geyer.at/

21. This is off tangent from this topic, I remember at one point in Asia the practice of having “real” trees as Christmas trees was discouraged – as wasteful, extravagant, and not environmentally friendly. People were encouraged to get plastic/artificial trees instead. It was late 1980s Asia so I imagined back then the real trees were air freighted to Asia from Europe.

    Also, I don’t know anyone personally, who would get a “real” Christmas tree even today, here in New Zealand.

    I grew up with this kind of obviously artificial Christmas tree. Silver in colour, you know it’s not real tree straightaway:

    https://www.amazon.com/National-Tree-Silver-Plastic-TT33-700-30-1/dp/B00MVAIFUO

22. I don’t really know. My family has always just chopped down our own tree from the forest behind our house.

    Now that i think about it that is probably illegal as someone owns the forest but i don’t think he’ll mind me taking a tree