US-amerikanische Baumfarmen haben im Jahr 2022, dem letzten Jahr, in dem USDA-Daten verfügbar waren, 14,5 Millionen Weihnachtsbäume gefällt. Nach Angaben der National Christmas Tree Association, einer Branchenvereinigung, wachsen auf den rund 15.000 Farmen in den USA mehr als 300 Millionen Weihnachtsbäume.
Michigan, North Carolina und Oregon verfügen über die meisten Flächen, die für Weihnachtsbaumfarmen genutzt werden. Den neuesten USDA-Daten zufolge umfassen diese Farmen landesweit mehr als 400 Quadratmeilen Land – etwas weniger als die Hälfte der Landfläche von Rhode Island.
Quelle: https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/us-christmas-tree-farm-map-rcna247251
Von nbcnews
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I’d say that depends highly on where you are. In New England, I’d wager almost none of the Christmas trees come from any of those three states.
Mine came from Kmart. Still works. Don’t know what Kmart is? It’s like Walmart but with milkshakes and blue light specials. #XGen
To be fair, in Alaska you just go out on state lands and cut your own down. Your chart doesn’t account for things like that, just commercial suppliers.
Not if you live in Europe.
>cover more than 400 square miles of land — a little less than half Rhode Island’s land area
do youj mean a little less than a third? because rhode island is 1545 sq mi
Living in NJ it will be from PA or NJ
No my tree comes from Canada
A lot of them were once from Canada, but we know what happened to that, Trump is the Grinch who stole Christmas.
That one green county in northern South Carolina is where we get ours!
I remember hiking around the mountains of NC and finding those Christmas tree farms. I figured all mountainous areas had some kind of setup to supply the local area. Had no idea I was amidst a downright *christmas hotspot*
This just brought me back to my kid years when we would make a whole day out of visiting one of the local Christmas tree farms. Perusing up and down all the rows of trees until we found the perfect one, reaching into the tree to hold onto it while my dad cut it down, getting a bunch of needles and sap on my coat and gloves in the process, sipping hot chocolate in the barn while they tied the tree to the roof of the car, then finally getting to set it up at home and find out how badly we estimated the dimensions to fit in our living room corner lol. Ahh, simpler times.
I live in North Carolina and we used to have a Christmas Tree store that would stay open all year round! I always thought how unsustainable that must be but then I learned that we have an abundance of trees in NC.
That’s 2022 data; how true will that be after Helene devastated Ashe county? I remember last year hearing that it had a huge impact on the Christmas tree farms that will take years to recover just on a production level
Mitten state represent, y’all!
Ours came from Costco. It’s stored in a box. Much easier to deal with and the longer you keep it the cheaper it gets.
pretty sure mine came from saudi arabia or russia via china…
Canada has entered the chat…….
Great map, not a great headline.
Here in Washington and western states you can buy a permit and cut one down from national forest lands for $5-$10
The interactive map at the link is very cool.
When I was in 2nd grade, my elementary school was half a mile from a Christmas tree farm (Salem, Oregon). We made handmade tags and attached them to outgoing trees, asking the buyer to return a postcard indicating where they bought their tree. We tracked all the responses on a big US map in the hallway. It was stunning to see how many places and how far away were getting Oregon Christmas trees.
Odds are a lot better that mine came from the Christmas tree farm in Vermont where I cut it down myself