In October and at Christmas it’s fun to drive 5 minutes to Kinsey Family Farm on Jot ‘Em Down Road. We also shop here to buy landscape plants and trees and will put an article on that in our Help Your Home category.
Pumpkin Festival: During October there’s a Pumpkin Festival where kids and parents take a tractor ride through the tree farm fields plus feed their farm animals. There’s a small charge for animal food or tractor tickets. That’s our granddaughter in the photo above trying to choose a pumpkin.
Christmas Trees: Just before Thanksgiving, they begin displaying an enormous selection of Christmas trees of unusual varieties and sizes, many grown on the family’s land. The lowest price trees are about $70, but we tried one last year and were pleasantly surprised at how freshly cut it was compared to our past home store trees. We put our Kinsey tree up a week before Thanksgiving and after New Year’s it had dropped hardly any needles, since we watered it regularly. Everyone who visited said it was the prettiest tree ever, so well worth the cost. The Kinsey Family staff ties the tree atop your car, and it’s a quick and easy drive only on Jot ‘Em Down and Mayfield roads to get home. Last year all trees were sold out by mid December, so don’t dilly dally. You may know the Kinsey Family bought land adjacent to Cobblestone Farms where Trailway Trace and Arlington Circle meet and they are growing trees there now. That land was originally to be part of our subdivision but our builder chose to sell it instead.
Where do you dispose of your Christmas tree? You can drive to the county’s recycling center at 3560 Settingdown Rd. where there’s no charge to leave trees. Home Depot takes trees back on one Saturday in January, check the date. Red Oak Sanitation will pick up after New Year’s IF you first call their office, pay a fee, and cut the tree into 3 foot or smaller sections.
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