McLean County Farm Bureau

LOOKING FOR A TALL, LOCALLY GROWN CHRISTMAS TREE IN ILLINOIS? SHOP EARLY, FARMERS SAY –

If your Christmas tree tastes mirror Clark Griswold’s in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” — tall, voluminous and raised locally — then the ideal conifer might be hard to find at an Illinois farm this season. Yet, growers want you to know that doesn’t mean the reduced supply is as sparse and frail as the sapling in “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” (The Pantagraph)