• There are approximately 33 million real Christmas trees sold in North America every year.
• Approximately 330,000 real Christmas trees are sold via e-commerce or catalogue and shipped mail order.
• It can take as many as 15 years to grow a tree of average retail sale height (6 feet), but the average growing time is 7 years.
• Sugar Pines Farm top selling Christmas trees are: Canaan fir, Blur Spruce and White pine.
• North-American real Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states and Canada. Most artificial trees are manufactured in China, Taiwan or Hong Kong.
• Real trees are a renewable, recyclable resource. Artificial trees contain non‑biodegradable plastics.
• For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place the following spring.
• There are more than 400 Ohio producers; more than 15,000 U.S. producers; and more than 100,000 people employed by the real Christmas tree farming industry.
