Each year, Americans buy between 25 million and 30 million real Christmas trees and 10 million fake ones. And each year, a question as traditional as O Tannenbaum itself swirls around sustainability ...

'Tis the season for Tannenbaum. It’s just a matter of which one. The choices can seem overwhelming at first: Will a blue spruce fill the house with the sharp scent of balsam better than a white pine?

Ready to remove a real Christmas tree from the living room? Consider donating it to feed a goat. The 130-acre Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island will accept trees, stripped of their holiday decorations, 10 a ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is urging state residents who have a real Christmas tree to choose from options that keep your tree out of the landfill and benefit ...

Across the country, artificial Christmas trees remain more popular than their natural counterparts — even in Connecticut, which is home to 4,039 acres of tree farms, according to 2022 USDA data.

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The best time of year to start shopping for a new Christmas tree depends on whether you're looking for an artificial or live one. For a faux tree, there's no such thing as buying one too early. When ...

Every year, families across the country make plans for the upcoming holidays. Whose house are you going to? Are you serving a Christmas ham or prime rib? (In this economy, ham it is.) And the biggest ...

Paying for gifts, decorations and gingerbread houses can become quite expensive, so the U.S. Department of the Interior is hoping to ease some financial burden by making Christmas trees more ...

Troy Mayor Carmella R. Mantello announced the return of the city’s Christmas tree recycling program starting Jan. 6.The City ...