Our Christmas tree plantation includes over 10,000 trees now and
occupies approximately six acres in the northwest corner of Sharp Park. We have
over 500 mature Christmas trees ranging from 3 to 15 feet tall this year.
Choose and cut your own Balsam fir, Douglas fir, Frasier fir, White or Blue
spruce, White or Scotch pine, all expertly pruned and shaped by the hands of
Rick Sharp and Ruth Masters:
Trees
under 4 feet
$20
4-5
feet
$25
5-8
feet (most
trees)
$30
Add
$6 per foot for taller trees.
Open weekends from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Thanksgiving to Christmas
or by appointment. Call 879-3507.
THE HISTORY OF SHARP FARM
I bought Cobble Hill in 1984 with the intention of teaching hang
gliding there. As we cleared the flatter areas on the north side of the
hill of small trees that had grown into the former cow pastures there, we began
to think about a cash crop we could plant around the landing zones to
help pay taxes and other expenses and that would not injure errant
pilots. Sharp Farm was born.
We started out planting 200 trees in 1984. Then 400, then
800. Then the drought of 1988 killed our entire planting of 1,000
trees. We devised a method of keeping track of newly planted trees for
watering with multi-colored plastic flags that tell us what year the tree was
transplanted into the field from our nursery. You'll see them in the fields. We
started selling trees choose and cut in 1995.
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