Growing up, my Mom and Dad would buy a Christmas tree with the roots intact. They would always buy a Balsam Fir except for that one year they bought a Blue Spruce. Around January 6, we would plant it next to the tree from the Christmas before. Needless to say, we have a lot of Pine trees on our property and the scent of Balsam Fir is amazing.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! Your videos are truly informative and have expanded my understanding on so many topics. Do you have any plans to cover more in-depth subjects in future videos?
I love this channel so much!! There so much work put into these episodes and I am so happy that they are still up and running. Gosh, 😭😭 It’s my favorite channel on TH-cam right now
I love this channel because it educates us in how things grow and that it truly shows the hard work that goes into it. It also makes me very proud to see the work the Hispanic community does throughout the entire country. You really put a lot of effort into these videos to shows the entire process of how things grow and it really shows, thank you!
Congratulations! This video shows everything the Christmas Tree goes through before it is bought and put in someones house. I am a Christmas Tree buyer/importer from Mexico. I actually buy trees from Bob! I have been showing this video to many people so they see that we don´t go out and cut trees from the wild. This is a real crop like any other crop and we do not damage the earth. I will definitely see your other videos as there is a lot to learn from them!
Yeah and using trucks and helicopters every year sure is great for the air too. No tree is better but I bet a fake tree that lasts 10 years is better than 10 years of real trees and all the waste that goes along with them.
@@justjaxie No... No... Just fucking no. The higher burning efficiency, the cleaner it will be. Gas has the best record, follow by oil, coal and mud coal... The most horrible one is wood, it turn into smoke with micro carbon particles and CO instead of pure CO2. Equally environmentally bad, extremely harmful for human health on high doses.
@@bachvandals3259 well, but its not only about efficiency, but also about the chemicals which are being burned - Phosphorus, Sulphur etc., and as far as i know, most of these is in fossil fuels. Also, if you are burning the wood correctly, you get very little CO in my opinion.
You did a really nice job on this video! You have a wonderful presence and put the story together really well. Thank you. I enjoyed watching you. My dad was one of the founders/owners of this farm. He just sold it and is now happily retired. My grandfather started the family business with a Silver tip tree ranch in the 30s but those trees grew in the forest. My dad's farm was set up to grow more efficiently. It is really thrilling to stand on the top of the mountain and hear and see a helicopter fly up from below and snag a bundle of trees in one action. The guys on the ground have to really be on their game so no one gets hurt. My dad is why you can buy Christmas trees at grocery stores, Walmart, Target and Home Depot. He convinced stores they should sell trees and they did. He kept those markets throughout his long career. Real trees are better for the environment. The growers replant every year, so it is a nice cycle. My dad, Gary Bishop, is really smart and creative. He built a wonderful sustainable business, and showed others how to do it. Thank you for sharing the story of how so many people come together so we can have real trees in our homes for Christmas...and how real trees help the environment.
Great to hear from you, Debbie, and lovely to read about the history! Give your dad a big THANK YOU from all of us. He sure did build a remarkable business. It was a pleasure to learn about it!
I was looking at my Christmas tree this morning wondering the process of how it got in my living room.. then I found myself here. Thanks for this informative video!
Where I live there are Christmas tree throwing competitions, anyone can enter (byoct...bring your own Christmas tree) and after the events the trees are disposed of right there. Great way to get the most out of your tree ;) it’s funny watching too. And great efficiency of gathering/disposing trees all together.
So cool to see this up close. Here in NC we see a lot new guys selling Christmas trees. We worked for a man for 25 years every Christmas and now we have taken it over. There's nothing I'd rather do every Christmas. Every day you go home smelling like a car air fresher lol. We are the only ones that I know of that keep every single tree in water from the time we get them until we sell them.
My Aunt and Uncle have a cabin the the NC mountains thats surrounded by christmas tree farms. Its so cool to see rows and rows of christmas trees for as far as you can see.
By far the best clip since when I started watching this channel. Crown of the season. Fir is a special plant along with oaks longevity. Not to mention the scent and infinite applications from it's wood. Amazing.
MY GOD!!!!!!! This is the most insane farming infrastructure I have ever witnessed!!!!!! I ve always wondered about christmas tree farms and how the do it since these trees are extremely slow growing, but the cycle and process was beyond my tiny imagination!!!!!!
Hi Nicole, I’m just blow away from the helicopter 🚁 and gather up all the Christmas 🎄 trees! Absolutely amazing thanks for sharing! Happy thanksgiving.
That accent at the end of the video ❤️🤣. You’re quickly becoming my favorite Tuber. The production quality is second to none. The way to speak to the camera mesmerizes me.
These trees filter the water and help the environment. Thousands of stumps are burned releasing smoke into the air. Hmmm. Crazy amazing scale though I will admit 🙏🏻
Curious. Are Christmas trees generally sprayed? I wanted to use Christmas trees from the neighbourhood as part of my Hügekulture beds, but wasn't sure whether they were pesticide free!
I was having a bad year in 1974, not as bad as Nixon but I digress. I didn't have money for anything, someone gave me a Weeping Fig tree for Christmas. 15 years ago it looked like it did not have long so planted a few Scotch Pine, 5 years later I realized they may get too big to fit in the house when needed so I planted a few Virginia Pine. Next year I thought Canaan Fir might be nice so planted a few more. Next came Fraser Fir and so on. Today it's just me and the Fig inside looking out at over 50 wannabe Christmas Trees.
Been doing this in NS, Canada for a little over a decade and seen a few operations over those years, but nothing like this. What a beautiful plantation. Wish we had a friggin’ helicopter. Lol. Lost 30lbs over Harvest so there’s always an upside. Haha. You guy’s hirin’? Lol!
Finally new videos on How Does It Grow series! I really love how you explaint it and how fresh are each of your videos! Thank you so much for this! Much love 💜💜
Wow..amazing video on amazing folks.. Qq, don't the trees gets damaged when the hooker drops them onto the truck bed?that part looked pretty rough.. Frankly I was expecting you talking to a pilot, but at that busy schedule probably that wasn't an option.
I always wondered what percentage of trees don’t get used. A local high school always brings in maybe thousands of them and they always have a lot left at the end of the season.
This was really interesting to learn more about! But why aren't they using a planting pipe to plant the seedlings? The seedlings looks like the taproot plants that are usually planted with pipes.
Mmm probably because the root system grows very large? Also the tree trunk grows wider and using a planting pipe would probably limit that growth or make harvesting the trees more difficult in the field.
@@emalinel you obviously don't leave the pipe in the soil, it's just the tool used for planting. and it's not even a real pipe, it's just called a pipe. it's more of a shovel/ice pick/pipe combo.
@@matildas3177 ohhhhh I see. Thanks for the image. Can that be applied on mass growing scale? Because if it has to be individually planted without a automated machine of sorts I also suspect that's why they don't use that method? The scale of growing those trees is very large
@@emalinel It's commonly used when replanting forest in the Nordic countries, one person can plant around 1000 trees in a day if I remember correctly. It's both effective and saves the user a lot of bending over and back pain. From what I can tell from this video it seems to take the same amount of time.
5:10 "hundreds of thousands of stumps have to be excavated and then burned" Hmm, but do they have to be burned? Putting all that carbon right back into the atmosphere isn't really necessary. Let them rot in a hole. The machinery to dig a pit, move the stumps, and optionally bury them creates some carbon, but surely not that much.
I have a friend who lived in an abandoned tree farm, it was so weird seeing full sized coniferous trees in perfect geometric rows.
Christmas 🎄❤️👍❤️
Any pictures
Riiight... cause the weirdest part of THAT story was trees in rows 🤦♂️... how about the creepy homeless dude in a dark empty forest 🤔 your “friend” 😂
Ok ty
Ok ty
Growing up, my Mom and Dad would buy a Christmas tree with the roots intact. They would always buy a Balsam Fir except for that one year they bought a Blue Spruce. Around January 6, we would plant it next to the tree from the Christmas before. Needless to say, we have a lot of Pine trees on our property and the scent of Balsam Fir is amazing.
Nobody asked
@@jordanw3145: Man, your life must suck to make an asinine reply on a 3 years old comment.
I thought it was interesting. Besides, nobody asked you either. @@jordanw3145
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! Your videos are truly informative and have expanded my understanding on so many topics. Do you have any plans to cover more in-depth subjects in future videos?
@@jordanw3145Who hurt you
I can tell a lot went into this episode, we really do appreciate it. I hope Everyone has a nice time with family.
Thank you so much!
This channel deserves millions of views and subcribers.
I love this channel so much!! There so much work put into these episodes and I am so happy that they are still up and running. Gosh, 😭😭 It’s my favorite channel on TH-cam right now
Thank you so much Johnny!!!
I love this channel because it educates us in how things grow and that it truly shows the hard work that goes into it. It also makes me very proud to see the work the Hispanic community does throughout the entire country. You really put a lot of effort into these videos to shows the entire process of how things grow and it really shows, thank you!
Congratulations! This video shows everything the Christmas Tree goes through before it is bought and put in someones house. I am a Christmas Tree buyer/importer from Mexico. I actually buy trees from Bob! I have been showing this video to many people so they see that we don´t go out and cut trees from the wild. This is a real crop like any other crop and we do not damage the earth. I will definitely see your other videos as there is a lot to learn from them!
And you are very beautiful, Adriana 😊
"The trees provide pure oxygen and water to help clean the air." Next scene: Piles of burning, smoldering, smokey tree stumps.
Yeah and using trucks and helicopters every year sure is great for the air too. No tree is better but I bet a fake tree that lasts 10 years is better than 10 years of real trees and all the waste that goes along with them.
Burning wood isn't as harmful to the environment as coal or other petroleum sources though. It's like burning firewood in your home.
@@justjaxie No... No... Just fucking no. The higher burning efficiency, the cleaner it will be. Gas has the best record, follow by oil, coal and mud coal... The most horrible one is wood, it turn into smoke with micro carbon particles and CO instead of pure CO2. Equally environmentally bad, extremely harmful for human health on high doses.
@@bachvandals3259 well, but its not only about efficiency, but also about the chemicals which are being burned - Phosphorus, Sulphur etc., and as far as i know, most of these is in fossil fuels. Also, if you are burning the wood correctly, you get very little CO in my opinion.
@@bachvandals3259 Burning petroleum products produces more CO than burning wood
A couple of local animal rescues accept trees (no tinsel) for their goats to eat. It's a natural de-wormer for them.
Yes!! Glad you noted this!
We love living in the Willamette Valley. Tree farms, nurseries, orchards, wheat fields, and mountains.
THIS VIDEO IS GOLD. I LOVE YOU TRUE FOOD TV! LOOKING FORWARD TO NEW CONTENTS!!
🙌🤗
I visited a tree farm in arkansas last year near my aunt and uncles house and it was amazing to see the treees at different stages
Really cool, right Jason?
This channel serves quality content yet so underrated 🥺!!! People should better subscribe 💕
Better too!! SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE!! I’m gonna do that right now with my Theatre Group chat. 🥺🥺
They have 400k+ subs, but the views are not representative because the channel got put aside due to some inactive period, TH-cam is unforgiving..
Thank you, Johnny and Josh!!!!!!!
Love all the content, but the How Does it Grow are the absolute best.
Thank you!! They take the most work but it's our favorite too!
latino farmers are real santa workforce this holy day... feliz navidad
TRUTH!!!!!! Feliz navidad a usted!
All farms you'll see them.
You did a really nice job on this video! You have a wonderful presence and put the story together really well. Thank you. I enjoyed watching you. My dad was one of the founders/owners of this farm. He just sold it and is now happily retired. My grandfather started the family business with a Silver tip tree ranch in the 30s but those trees grew in the forest. My dad's farm was set up to grow more efficiently. It is really thrilling to stand on the top of the mountain and hear and see a helicopter fly up from below and snag a bundle of trees in one action. The guys on the ground have to really be on their game so no one gets hurt. My dad is why you can buy Christmas trees at grocery stores, Walmart, Target and Home Depot. He convinced stores they should sell trees and they did. He kept those markets throughout his long career. Real trees are better for the environment. The growers replant every year, so it is a nice cycle. My dad, Gary Bishop, is really smart and creative. He built a wonderful sustainable business, and showed others how to do it. Thank you for sharing the story of how so many people come together so we can have real trees in our homes for Christmas...and how real trees help the environment.
Great to hear from you, Debbie, and lovely to read about the history! Give your dad a big THANK YOU from all of us. He sure did build a remarkable business. It was a pleasure to learn about it!
Amazing, ingenious, and tricky way to harvest Christmas trees!
Wonderful, just on time for the season. Thank you!
You bet!
I was looking at my Christmas tree this morning wondering the process of how it got in my living room.. then I found myself here. Thanks for this informative video!
Wonderful!
Where I live there are Christmas tree throwing competitions, anyone can enter (byoct...bring your own Christmas tree) and after the events the trees are disposed of right there. Great way to get the most out of your tree ;) it’s funny watching too. And great efficiency of gathering/disposing trees all together.
Hilarious!
@@TrueFoodTV th-cam.com/video/_AXy_IBErIc/w-d-xo.html
My doctor had a book labelled "My Life As A Hooker" on his bookshelf. Turns out its a position on a rugby team.
Happy Hookers. I literally laughed out loud upon hearing that 😂😂😂😂 great one!!!!
A paid hooker is a happy hooker
Here in Lexington KY we have a popular bar named Happy Hooker's
Hookers need jobs too🤷♀️😆
Hooker life matters.
Such a detailed episode. Excellent Watch !
Thank you so much!
So cool to see this up close. Here in NC we see a lot new guys selling Christmas trees. We worked for a man for 25 years every Christmas and now we have taken it over. There's nothing I'd rather do every Christmas. Every day you go home smelling like a car air fresher lol. We are the only ones that I know of that keep every single tree in water from the time we get them until we sell them.
This video deserves a millions of views. Thank you for sharing, this is very informative. Happy holidays 🌲
Before this, I don't know this kind of farming 🥰
Fascinating!! I had no idea they used a helicopter!
This is my first time to see a real Christmas tree thank you 😱🤯😳😲😍
How do Christmas tree smell? I'm from the Philippines and we only have plastic Christmas tree.
They smell like pine trees.
@@Encourageable oh thanks, I wish I could smell what you smell
This pocess is amazing! Do they spray the trees with anything? Pesticides, fire retardant etc?
That's so cool, I love it! I didn't actually know real trees were used.
Yeah me too
Its admirable that you can both admit it
Thank you so much for keeping us educated and aware! I LOVE your channel...
THAT IS BEAUTIFUL VIDEO..THANK YOU...
My Aunt and Uncle have a cabin the the NC mountains thats surrounded by christmas tree farms. Its so cool to see rows and rows of christmas trees for as far as you can see.
What a view!
What a neat and educational episode!!
Thank you!!
I didn’t know that I wanted to see this. What a great idea!
Edit: Fascinating video, spectacular production quality, and great timing as well :)
TH-cam makes you watch it.
So glad you enjoyed it, Aaron!!
My right arm is bigger than my left arm too. Tree Trimming 🎄
Are they pruned only in summer? When I want to cut a branch, where do I cut it so I don't kill it?
By far the best clip since when I started watching this channel. Crown of the season. Fir is a special plant along with oaks longevity. Not to mention the scent and infinite applications from it's wood. Amazing.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Your videos bring me such joy and calmness
I'm so glad, Javier!
This was such a cool video! Thank you guys for providing such high quality content!
Our pleasure! 🙌
Last time I had a real Christmas Tree was 2007. Great video. Thank you for sharing Nicole. Merry Christmas to you and yours XXX
And to you, Terry! Thank you!
This is the coolest video! What hard workers!
Right? So much respect for all the planters, pruners and harvesters!
That looks like a fun video shoot!
Great video guys!🙌
Thank you!! 😁
very informative, delightful to watch, thank you so much ....
Glad you enjoyed it!
This channel deserves more subscribers 💙
Thank you! Please share it!
Wowowwwww I can believe it Biggest Xmas Tree Farm
MY GOD!!!!!!! This is the most insane farming infrastructure I have ever witnessed!!!!!! I ve always wondered about christmas tree farms and how the do it since these trees are extremely slow growing, but the cycle and process was beyond my tiny imagination!!!!!!
The music at 4:57 is TigerBlood Jewel's song Virginia Highway. You're welcome 😁
A new episode!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! Christmas came early.
🙌
the beauty of the farm, the hard work that goes into farming these trees... spellbound 😊😊😊😊😊 thank you for showing this..
So glad you enjoyed this glimpse, Naro! 🤗
Hi Nicole,
I’m just blow away from the helicopter 🚁 and gather up all the Christmas 🎄 trees!
Absolutely amazing thanks for sharing!
Happy thanksgiving.
Amazing, right?! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving too.
@@TrueFoodTV I did thank you for asking!! 😊
Happy Holidays!! Love your videos and this one is especially fantastic!!
So happy you made this video 💐💐💐💐❤️❤️
All hard working men out there ,hope they get a very good wages for Christmas !
Fascinating video, nicole!
Great episode.
Amazing!
Thank you! Cheers!
This is so so cooooool!!
🙌
I HAVE 3 TREES OUTSIDE MY WINDOW, NEVER BEEBN CARED FOR, NICE SHAPS AND HEALTHY, THESE DUDES WORK TO HARD FOR THE PROFIT.
Can you explain the bald spots of missing trees in the farm? Were these diseased trees they needed to remove?
That accent at the end of the video ❤️🤣. You’re quickly becoming my favorite Tuber. The production quality is second to none. The way to speak to the camera mesmerizes me.
Hi Nicole, good to see you and as always very nice inforamation and a lot of greetings from Serbia !
best vid everrrrrrr
yay!!
Wonder why they shred the stumps into mulch to return the nutrients to the soil... Cost/time only?
Just found this channel and it's a gold mine! 👏👏👏
Super Episode Nicole Thank you so much
thank YOU for watching!
Such a wonderful host ☺
Thank you so much for sharing this video, I never knew about Christmas 🎄 tree farming.
You are so welcome!
I certainly didn’t expect helicopters and samurai swords! Thanks for the great content
@paul RIGHT?!
Excellent video, well done!
Glad you liked it!
These trees filter the water and help the environment. Thousands of stumps are burned releasing smoke into the air. Hmmm. Crazy amazing scale though I will admit 🙏🏻
THIS IS SOOOOOOOOO GOOD. Happy holidays to you and those nice farm personnel!
Amazing video. So interesting. Thank you!
Your content always makes my day happy! Thank you for all the work you put in!
Happy to hear that! Makes all the work worth it!
Here in Alleghany and Ashe County we have the most Christmas trees ever up here on top of the mountain
Amazing video! Thank you!
Glad you liked it! ❤
Fantastic video
Curious. Are Christmas trees generally sprayed? I wanted to use Christmas trees from the neighbourhood as part of my Hügekulture beds, but wasn't sure whether they were pesticide free!
Absolutely sprayed and they are not a food crop, so they use pesticides banned on edible crops.
Huh, this makes sense, I did wonder about the cost on the soil of growing these trees.
I was having a bad year in 1974, not as bad as Nixon but I digress. I didn't have money for anything, someone gave me a Weeping Fig tree for Christmas. 15 years ago it looked like it did not have long so planted a few Scotch Pine, 5 years later I realized they may get too big to fit in the house when needed so I planted a few Virginia Pine. Next year I thought Canaan Fir might be nice so planted a few more. Next came Fraser Fir and so on. Today it's just me and the Fig inside looking out at over 50 wannabe Christmas Trees.
4:25 Trees also purify the water supplies
Been doing this in NS, Canada for a little over a decade and seen a few operations over those years, but nothing like this. What a beautiful plantation. Wish we had a friggin’ helicopter. Lol. Lost 30lbs over Harvest so there’s always an upside. Haha. You guy’s hirin’? Lol!
As compliment, honest compliment, this vid and previous videos are really educational and these are vid with VALUES!
Thank you so much!
Great video as always
So glad you enjoyed it!!!!!! And thank you for the support!!!!
Finally new videos on How Does It Grow series! I really love how you explaint it and how fresh are each of your videos! Thank you so much for this! Much love 💜💜
Thank YOU for the kind words! So glad you enjoy them.
Such a great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow..amazing video on amazing folks.. Qq, don't the trees gets damaged when the hooker drops them onto the truck bed?that part looked pretty rough.. Frankly I was expecting you talking to a pilot, but at that busy schedule probably that wasn't an option.
Yes, schedule was hectic. And also we were trying to limit interviews because of COVID. So glad you enjoyed it!
I live in Orizaba, Mexico. My Noble came from Oregon, probably from that farm. The tag looks the same.
Possible. I believe they do ship trees to Mexico!
always love your vids.... you have a bright charming aura :D Merry Christmas
Blow dry the tree, that put smile on my face
😉
8:43 Bob's sweating now, best let the professionals do it
Hey that’s where I live Noble mountain tree farm! It’s very very beautiful!
I always wondered what percentage of trees don’t get used. A local high school always brings in maybe thousands of them and they always have a lot left at the end of the season.
Very nice
What a cool way to harvest! 🌲
Such amaaaazing content!
So glad you enjoyed it!!
Your best video so far. Congratulations 🎊
Yay! Thank you!
This was really interesting to learn more about! But why aren't they using a planting pipe to plant the seedlings? The seedlings looks like the taproot plants that are usually planted with pipes.
Mmm probably because the root system grows very large? Also the tree trunk grows wider and using a planting pipe would probably limit that growth or make harvesting the trees more difficult in the field.
@@emalinel you obviously don't leave the pipe in the soil, it's just the tool used for planting. and it's not even a real pipe, it's just called a pipe. it's more of a shovel/ice pick/pipe combo.
@@matildas3177 ohhhhh I see. Thanks for the image. Can that be applied on mass growing scale? Because if it has to be individually planted without a automated machine of sorts I also suspect that's why they don't use that method? The scale of growing those trees is very large
@@emalinel It's commonly used when replanting forest in the Nordic countries, one person can plant around 1000 trees in a day if I remember correctly. It's both effective and saves the user a lot of bending over and back pain. From what I can tell from this video it seems to take the same amount of time.
@@matildas3177 I see! Thanks for the extra info. Learned something new today thanks to you :)
5:10 "hundreds of thousands of stumps have to be excavated and then burned"
Hmm, but do they have to be burned? Putting all that carbon right back into the atmosphere isn't really necessary. Let them rot in a hole. The machinery to dig a pit, move the stumps, and optionally bury them creates some carbon, but surely not that much.
Or use a shredder to mulch them. Break down into soil much faster that way.