Find out where in Collier Township you can pick out a tree and cut it down for Christmas.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Mike Jones
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Nutbrown’s Christmas Tree Farm in Collier Township, one of the only places around where you can choose and chop down your own tree, is open again for the holiday season. The tree farm is drawing a crowd with unseasonably warm weather over the weekend. Henry Nutbrown, who owns the 12-acre farm along McMichael Road with his wife, Sue, said he’ll take this warmer weather even though most of the customers are pining for the white stuff. “Everybody comes out and says they wish we had a little snow. Not me,” Nutbrown told Chartiers Valley Patch. “I’ll take some snow on the 24th of December. It can snow as much as it wants then.” The farm, which Nutbrown’s parents purchased in 1939, has been selling Christmas trees since the late 1960s. It has …
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The Nutbrown family has been selling Christmas trees on their Collier Township farm for nearly 50 years.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Mike Jones
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Friday, December 9, 2011
When Henry Nutbrown’s parents wanted to make some extra money to put him and his two siblings through college, they had three choices on their small farm: Breed chinchillas, sell earthworms or grow Christmas trees. “I’m eternally grateful my mother decided Christmas trees over the earthworms and chinchillas,” Nutbrown said of his family farm’s tradition. Emmanuel and Mary Nutbrown moved to the Collier Township farm in 1939 from Carnegie to try something different. They planted 100 Scotch pine seedlings in single rows on the small farm in 1958 and continued planting over the next decade before they could sell their first tree. Unfortunately by then, Henry Nutbrown and his older sister had already graduated college. “But it was our start …
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180 McMichael Rd, Carnegie, PA
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