Customers arrive on the final day of the 2021 cutting season at Millbrook Tree Farm pn Dec. 4. Staff photo by Jordan Kartholl
YORKTOWN —There’s a reality that Millbrook Tree Farm must contend with - nature is indifferent to supply and demand, economic convenience or even an approaching holiday.
No matter what, Christmas trees grow just 10 inches per year.
It’s a fact that has become all the more conspicuous to owners Brent and Cara Reed in the wake of the erratic cultural and economic changes that have occurred under COVID-19.
In the past two years, the Reeds say the pandemic has brought hundreds of new customers down their serpentine, gravel driveway who arrive at the 15-acre farm with the sometimes futile hope of sawing down a natural evergreen.
“For lack of better words, this season has been fast and furious,” Brent said. “Nobody would have guessed we’d have a huge growth in business like this.”
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