Don Ferrey, the owner/operator of Happy Pappy’s Christmas Tree Farm, sells Christmas trees he grows on his land. Despite making little profit, he continues doing it because he enjoys seeing people's reactions and creating lasting memories.
When Don Ferrey started selling Christmas trees he grew on a 22-acre parcel of land a few kilometres northeast of the Prince George Airport, he knew he wasn’t going to get rich doing it. Nineteen years later, the owner/operator of Happy Pappy’s Christmas Tree Farm figures he’s makes “about 17 cents an hour” for all the work he puts into producing his Norway spruce, blue Spruce and sub-alpine fir trees, but it’s well worth it to him.
He does it because he likes people and seeing their reactions when they turn their annual Christmas tree hunt into a what will become a lifetime memory. Tree hunters come to his farm to choose the tree they want and cut it down themselves, then get to sit around a raging campfire to sip coffee or hot chocolate and shoot the breeze. He produces only enough to sell about 75 trees annually, most of them seven- or eight-footers, at $65 each. If you do the math that adds less than $5,000 a year to add to Ferrie’s pension incom
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