“I would say buy sooner rather than later,” says Larry Whitehead, a Surrey commercial grower and a member of the B.C. Christmas Tree Association. “It looks…
“I would say buy sooner rather than later,” says Larry Whitehead, a Surrey commercial grower and a member of the B.C. Christmas Tree Association. “It looks like we’re going to be tight on supply again this year.”Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Whitehead said the industry has reached out to the Ministry of Agriculture to help encourage young farmers to get into the tree business by designating underutilized land for growing. “You can grow a tree on just about any kind of land and there’s lot of land in B.C. not being used,” he says. Russell, who has a degree in forestry and lives in a cabin he built at his farm near Duncan, said there will likely be fewer trees next year and in coming seasons because the survival rate for seedlings has dipped. “It will bite you down the line,” he says.
She normally stocks about 2,000 trees a year, but is scrambling to come up with about 1,300 from several sources, including the Sahtlam Farm, and growers in Invermere and Oregon.
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