The gift shop consists of a peg board with a few handmade wreaths.
Pat Blair arranges Christmas trees in the small lot she tends with her sister, Pam, along Atwood Avenue. The twins, who have been selling trees on Madison's East Side for 28 years, this season hope to sell 445 trees that were harvested near Verona. The vast majority of their customers come from the neighborhood.
Identical twin sisters Pat, left, and Pam Blair show off a pair of Christmas trees they have for sale on their lot located next to the BP convenience store on Atwood Avenue. They have trees of all sizes but have a number of tabletop trees, too.
Before dusting off your decorations and hanging you ornaments, the age-old question must be asked: Whether to use a fake or real Christmas tree this holiday season. While a plastic tree may be more convenient, Greg Hann, owner of Hann’s Christmas Tree Farm in Oregon, Wis., helps shed some light on the benefits that a real Christmas tree can bring to not only your home, but the local ecosystem as well.
Pat Blair unloads a delivery of Christmas trees outside the small lot she tends with her sister, Pam, next to a BP convenience store along Atwood Avenue.
Chris Bollig of Enchanted Valley Acres carries a Christmas tree sent through a baler at the tree farm north of Cross Plains. The farm has about 35,000 trees and began selling in 2019 after the first trees were planted in 2012.
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Jay Schad and his wife, Celia Kelia, of Fitchburg prepare to use a specially built wagon to transport their freshly cut tree to their vehicle during a visit Thursday to Enchanted Valley Acres near Cross Plains. Wisconsin ranks fifth nationally in Christmas tree production.
Enchanted Valley Acres worker Chris Bollig, left, helps Simon Anderson, of Madison, load his Christmas tree purchased on Thursday. Real Christmas tree sales remain strong throughout the country.
Workers at Enchanted Valley Acres can be seen through the windows of a barn built in 1937 and 1938 after the original barn constructed in the early 1900s burned. The lower level of the "new" barn is now home to a gift shop.
Historic photographs and artifacts documenting the history of Enchanted Valley Acres are displayed inside a barn on the property, a farmstead once owned by George and Mary Grob, who married in 1903.
A photograph of one-time Chicago Bulls basketball player B.J. Anderson, a former owner of Enchanted Valley Acres, still resides in a barn on the property, located in the town of Berry, north of Cross Plains.
Chris Kirsch, who owns Enchanted Valley Acres with his wife, Angela, arranges a trailer at his business, located on a former dairy farm north of Cross Plains. The farm could sell more than 5,000 trees this season.
Photos: Selling real Christmas trees
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A plastic snowman greets visitors to a small Christmas tree lot run by twin sisters Pam and Pat Blair on the East Side of Madison, Wis. Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Pat Blair adds a fresh cut to a Christmas trees purchased by a buyer at the small lot she tends with her sister along Atwood Avenue in Madison, Wis. Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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A photograph of one-time Chicago Bulls basketball player B.J. Anderson, a former owner of Enchanted Valley Acres, still resides in a barn on the property, located in the town of Berry, north of Cross Plains.
Christmas Trees
Identical twin sisters Pat, left, and Pam Blair show off a pair of Christmas trees they have for sale on their lot located next to the BP convenience store on Atwood Avenue. They have trees of all sizes but have a number of tabletop trees, too.
Christmas Trees
Historic photographs and artifacts documenting the history of Enchanted Valley Acres are displayed inside a barn on the property, a farmstead once owned by George and Mary Grob, who married in 1903.
Christmas Trees
Pat Blair unloads a delivery of Christmas trees outside the small lot she tends with her sister, Pam, next to a BP convenience store along Atwood Avenue.
Christmas Trees
Jay Schad and his wife, Celia Kelia, of Fitchburg prepare to use a specially built wagon to transport their freshly cut tree to their vehicle during a visit Thursday to Enchanted Valley Acres near Cross Plains. Wisconsin ranks fifth nationally in Christmas tree production.
Christmas Trees
Chris Kirsch, who owns Enchanted Valley Acres with his wife, Angela, arranges a trailer at his business, located on a former dairy farm north of Cross Plains. The farm could sell more than 5,000 trees this season.
Christmas Trees
Pat Blair arranges Christmas trees in the small lot she tends with her sister, Pam, along Atwood Avenue. The twins, who have been selling trees on Madison's East Side for 28 years, this season hope to sell 445 trees that were harvested near Verona. The vast majority of their customers come from the neighborhood.
Christmas Trees
Workers at Enchanted Valley Acres can be seen through the windows of a barn built in 1937 and 1938 after the original barn constructed in the early 1900s burned. The lower level of the "new" barn is now home to a gift shop.
Christmas Trees
Chris Bollig of Enchanted Valley Acres carries a Christmas tree sent through a baler at the tree farm north of Cross Plains. The farm has about 35,000 trees and began selling in 2019 after the first trees were planted in 2012.
Christmas Trees
Enchanted Valley Acres worker Chris Bollig, left, helps Simon Anderson, of Madison, load his Christmas tree purchased on Thursday. Real Christmas tree sales remain strong throughout the country.
