[Jiovanni Lieggi, FOX Business]
In Pollock Pines California, a small town nestled near the Sierra Nevada Foothills, Christmas trees are grown by a few different farmers.
These farms once threatened by the rapidly-moving Caldor Fire earlier this year, are now open for business.
But there’s only one issue: demand is higher now than ever before.
“We’ve had an increase in customer demand. It’s kind of happened over the years, more and more people are getting out into the country and cutting their own tree,” Pamela Harris said.
Harris has been working on the Harris Tree Farm since the day it opened, just about six decades ago. They have loyal customers who visit, some from out of state every year, to grab homemade goods and partake in the tradition of picking and cutting down a Christmas tree.
However, Harris Farms has had to limit the number of trees cut down because the demand for real trees has grown.
It takes about a decade for one of the trees to grow to a normal Christmas tree size, Doug Hundley said…