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Christmas Trees May Be Recycled At Local Landfill

Jan. 5, 2012

The Garrett County Department of Solid Waste and Recycling invites Garrett County residents to participate in Christmas tree recycling at the county landfill during the months of January and February.

Trees will be accepted for recycling from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the landfill location at 3118 Oakland Sang Run Road.

Christmas tree recycling is available to Garrett County residents free of charge. A residential disposal permit is not required to participate in this program or any other recycling program in Garrett County.

Christmas trees may also be recycled at home by placing cut branches and needles under trees and shrubs as a temporary winter mulch – or by chopping them up and adding them to compost piles.

“Please remove all tinsel, garland and ornaments before recycling Christmas trees at home or the landfill location,” said recycling coordinator Kim Madigan.

Persons with questions regarding the free recycling programs in Garrett County may contact Madigan at 301-387-0322 or kmadigan@garrettcounty.org.

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Indeed, this is a scene that speaks for itself, a lovely moment in time, a cold December evening, quiet except for the telltale light on in the house. Someone was busy. Making Christmas cookies, perhaps? Wrapping gifts? Signing cards? It certainly is the time of year for any and all. Here’s hoping all our readers are enjoying the tasks of this holiday season, as they prepare for the big day. This was taken by Lisa Broadwater along Rt. 219 in
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A 15-foot concolor fir grown in Garrett County graces the front of the Latvian Embassy in Washington, D.C., to help commemorate the 500th anniversary of the world’s first decorated Christmas tree, which is said to have stood in Latvia’s capital city of Riga. The cut tree was donated to the embassy on behalf of the Maryland Christmas Tree Association by Marshall and Cindy Stacy, who own and operate the 370-acre Pinetum tree farm in Swanton. The state tree association used a Maryland specialty crop grant this season for its “buy local–buy real” marketing campaign and to connect with Latvia’s special tree celebration. Pictured (left to right) at the embassy’s lighting ceremonies, held last Friday, are Latvian ambassador Andrejs Pildegovics and Marshall and Cindy Stacy. Photo by Peter Alunans.

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Grower reports robust Christmas trees despite some drought losses

By MARIE GILBERT
November 27, 2010
marieg@herald-mail.com

BOONSBORO — This time of the year, Gary Cline stands at the edge of his 24-acre property and smiles as he listens to the sounds of Christmas — the back-and-forth of a hand saw and the thud of a Fraser fir.

These are the cold, gray days he’s been waiting for, the days when there isn’t a Grinch in sight, just families walking slowly between rows of evergreens.

Cline is a Christmas tree farmer and on the first weekend after Thanksgiving, his business — South Mountain Plantation — comes alive.

Hundreds of people make their way to the Boonsboro farm each year in search of the perfect holiday tree and the experience of cutting it down and bringing it home.

But few visitors wandering through the spruces, firs and pines this year will realize the farm was on the receiving end of one of Mother Nature’s crueler tricks last summer.

Because of a serious drought, Cline said most of the seedlings he planted were lost….

…Cindy Stacy, publicist with MCTA and owner of Pinetum, a wholesale tree farm in Garrett County, said the trees especially hit hard by the drought were those that had been in the ground less than three years.

“Their root systems just weren’t deep enough,” she said.

Stacy said evergreens grow less with the lack of moisture and they harden off earlier in the fall, which shuts down growth. Some varieties of conifers also might have shed more than the normal complement of needles early to reduce stress.

While the drought was hard on plants, Stacy said it was good for insects.

“So there was more insect damage on trees,” she said. “On our farm, we couldn’t sell many Fraser fir, for example, because of loss of quality due to insect damage. This is a byproduct of the severe drought. We had to cancel a couple of tree orders due to this problem this season.”

Stacy said the drought didn’t affect wholesale prices “because those are set in July.”

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