WOOSTER, Ohio — For Rita Dush, Christmas bushes maintain many meanings.
“Stewardship of the land, magnificence, and happiness for households,” mentioned Dush, proprietor of Pine Tree Barn in Wooster.
On the barn, there’s a listing of various kinds of bushes that take some time to develop. “It is often about eight years earlier than we harvest,” mentioned Brad Moore, Pine Tree Farm’s nursery supervisor.
It additionally takes time to choose the right tree. As soon as clients decide, they reduce them down, shake out the pines and wrap them as much as go. Although the tree could final a month or two, the enjoyment carries without end.
“It’s the Christmas spirit — you make households completely satisfied. You see little children which are completely satisfied,” mentioned Moore.
It’s not simply the wonderful experiences and reminiscences that final for purchasers. For Dush, Pine Tree Barn holds a deeper which means.
She misplaced her husband two years in the past right now. Roger and Rita constructed Pine Tree from the roots of Roger’s household farm, Yuletide Tree Farm, 40 years in the past. They by no means anticipated it will be as huge as it’s right now, however they made a promise to one another.
“We knew we weren’t going to stay without end, and we each needed some farm to proceed. That is why I am nonetheless doing it, and I am positive if I had been him and he had been right here, he’d be nonetheless doing it too,” mentioned Rita.
And so each smile she sees on the farm brings her pleasure.
“It’s fantastic, completely fantastic, particularly with the little children, however they’re smiling and completely satisfied and bouncy,” mentioned Dush.
Rita sees eight years of labor, when Roger was by her aspect, delivered to life.
“It provides me a motive for being, I miss him,” she mentioned.
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The farm is open 9 a.m. to five p.m. daily, and so they have a present store and restaurant on the property. For more information on Pine Tree Barn click on here.
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