STILL POND — With four more shopping days until Christmas, Jake Cochran of Chestertown and his 4-year-old son Grant find just what they are looking for Saturday afternoon, Dec. 20 at Simmons Christmas Tree Farm. Assisting them is R.J. Baldwin, right.
Fields at the Simmons farm on Still Pond Neck Road are closed for the final weekend of the shopping season, so all trees — including the 6-foot Frazier fir headed home with Grant and his father — are pre-cut.
Simmons Christmas Tree Farm grows eight different varieties: two spruce, two pine and four fir options.
The farm, which has been in the family since 1962, is 117 acres, with 14 acres in trees.
The first seedlings were planted in 1984; the first year for selling of cut trees was in 1989.
The farm is open for business only on weekends and only during the holiday season, beginning the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Shoppers travel from near and far, and apparently will come out in all kinds of weather. Andy Simmons said he sold 30-plus trees Sunday, Dec. 14 despite 6 inches of fresh snow on the ground at his farm.
— Photo by Trish McGee
