After a tree has been growing 8 to 15 years and it has finally reached the point that it meets the grade and is ready to be harvested we do several things to the tree.  First we inspect measure and tag the tree.  Then what we call a tipping crew comes through and just barely shapes the tree with a final very light shearing.  Then another crew comes through and gives the tree a final shot of fertilizer to make sure that it stays nice and green until it is cut(trees naturally loose color in the fall) and then finally we spray the tree with an environmentally friendly insecticide called Wisdom to especially make sure their are no cinnarah aphids on the tree that will wake up in a consumers home which will cause a lot of alarm.

Of course their is much more.  We are lining up labor, getting our shipping facility ready and making sure that all the tractors, trucks, balers, elevators, chain saws, computers, trucking companies and orders are in place for customers.  This is something that w work on all year long but it starts in earnst in July and continues until the last tree is shipped and the 2008 Christmas harvest and shipping season is over.

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