Ironically, what made the spruce a fantastic Christmas tree also made it structurally weak: The branches that spanned 46 feet in diameter left lots of knots in the wood, so the beams were mainly used ...
Ryan and Colleen Liberte, of Crooked Brook Farm in Wells, Maine, are expanding their seasonal delights from Christmas trees ...
The uncertainty over federal farm funding, as well as layoffs at the USDA, come as farmers are in their heaviest spending ...