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F . Emin , Jr .,” says Jocelyn Emin . “ My grandparents had five kids and there were seven large cedar trees on the property . With the number of trees on the property coinciding with the number of people in the family at the time , they decided on ‘ Seven Cedars Farm ’ for the name .” More than fifty years later , the Emin family — including Jocelyn and her grandfather , John , as well as her father , Seth , and her sister , Marina — continues to head and run the farm . In addition to the Christmas trees they ’ ve come to be known for , Seven Cedars also boasts seasonal offerings such as spring flowers , fall flowers , different craft festivals and its own haunted hayride . “ We ’ ve found from customers that we ’ ve become a tradition of sorts , whether it be for picking a Christmas tree — we have families of multi-generations who come yearly — or going on a hayride ,” says Emin . “ We love not only teaching our customers about our farm but also learning about them in the process . A fun historic fact is that the houses on the farm were built in the 1700s . One that sits alongside the property was the home of Colonel Elisha Mowry during the Revolutionary War . It stored a third of the Revolutionary

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IF YOU BELIEVE A CHRISTMAS TREE shouldn ’ t go up until well into December , you may want to think again . “ There is a Christmas tree shortage and there will be one for several years due to the many wildfires in the Midwest ,” says Riverside Christmas Tree Farm ’ s Jane Durning . “ Many of the farms that grow the stock for Christmas tree farms to buy are from the Midwest and they are suffering from fire loss . Also , many of the larger growers are sending their stock out to reforest those locations ravished by the fires . It is getting hard for us small Christmas tree farms to find the replacement stock for our farms . It takes eight to twenty-five years for a baby tree to grow to saleable height . So , this is not a quick turnaround commodity . When we plant a baby tree , we hope that it survives to saleable size .” Just another reason to consider tagging your trees or picking up your pre-cut tree early this season .

Randal Poirier , ChFC Financial Planner , Partner

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