Episode 320 - Holiday Harvest   addthis
What if your entire season depended on getting just one crop out in a timely and efficient manner?  Well that’s the case when it comes to Christmas trees!  Jason Shoultz travels to the Willamette Valley of Oregon to meet Joe Sharpe. He’s a Christmas tree grower who directs a small army of workers and equipment to ship more than 700 thousand trees to retail dealers all across the United States. He has even shipped to Singapore! See what goes into making a “green” Christmas possible for tens of thousands of families.

 

  

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While Oregon is the leading producer of Christmas trees in the United States, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Washington, New York, and Virginia are also top producers. As for lights on the tree, Thomas Edison's assistant, Edward Johnson, devised the idea of electric tree lights in 1882.

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Oregon Farm Bureau
Oregon Department of Agriculture

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