A Typical Christmas Season at the Mt. Anthony Tree Farm

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  Interview with Jim Horst         The Mt. Anthony Tree Farm

    The ten hour day begins at the Mt. Anthony Tree Farm at dawn.  The trees need to be marked for harvest and graded with various colored ribbons.  After this work is done, the trees are put on a machine that wraps them up.  Then they are brought to roadside and prepared for wholesale orders.  Four to five thousand trees are sold and divided up among twelve to fifteen wholesale costumers that buy anywhere from one hundred to one thousand trees.

      One of Jim's tree lots waiting for harvest.

Out of Christmas Season at the Mt. Anthony Tree Farm

    Jim hires help three times a year for short periods of time. In the spring, it is necessary for him and his employees to plant five or six thousand trees quickly. Since they don't grow the trees from seeds, the transplants need to be plant extremely quick. July and August is the sheering season, and since this is very tedious and monotonous work, help is needed then as well.

        "...at age sixty-two I've gotten somewhat lazy, and it's hard work that if I did it all, it would take two to three months."

Jim primarily grows fir trees, such as Balsam fir and Douglas fir.