Piedmont Triad: Christmas tree shortage expected to put a damper on the holidays
Updated: 1:10 PM EST Nov 26, 2021
This year, there have been shortages in everything from gas to groceries to gifts, but decking the halls may also be more difficult this holiday season due to a certain shortage.Like everything else, Christmas trees are in short supply. Unlike everything else, the seeds for this shortage were planted between eight and ten years ago. Supply was growing, demand was not. “There is a shortage of them,” Ron Rash, owner of Rash’s Christmas Tree Patch, said.Rash and his brother have been spreading holiday cheer for over thirty years. They own a Christmas Tree Farm in West Jefferson that provides trees to lots up and down the east coast. They also run a tree lot on Reynolda Road.Rash's Tree Patch Facebook Page“There seemed to be more than enough trees to meet supply at , so people quit growing them and quit planting them out,” Rash said.When lot owners called him looking for a new supplier, he had to tell them, they were out on a limb. “Obviously, some people were unhappy. It’s part of the business to accommodate the people you’ve accommodated for several years and the surplus people it’s 'I’m sorry we don’t have trees,'” Rash said. If you want your holiday to be merry and bright, you better hurry. Rash’s Christmas Tree Patch is expected to be sold out by the middle of December.
WEST JEFFERSON, N.C. — This year, there have been shortages in everything from gas to groceries to gifts, but decking the halls may also be more difficult this holiday season due to a certain shortage.
Like everything else, Christmas trees are in short supply. Unlike everything else, the seeds for this shortage were planted between eight and ten years ago. Supply was growing, demand was not.
“There is a shortage of them,” Ron Rash, owner of Rash’s Christmas Tree Patch, said.
Rash and his brother have been spreading holiday cheer for over thirty years. They own a Christmas Tree Farm in West Jefferson that provides trees to lots up and down the east coast. They also run a tree lot on Reynolda Road.
Rash's Tree Patch Facebook Page
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Reynolda Road Christmas Tree Lot
“There seemed to be more than enough trees to meet supply at [the time of planting the trees], so people quit growing them and quit planting them out,” Rash said.
When lot owners called him looking for a new supplier, he had to tell them, they were out on a limb.
“Obviously, some people were unhappy. It’s part of the business to accommodate the people you’ve accommodated for several years and [to] the surplus people it’s 'I’m sorry we don’t have trees,'” Rash said.
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Ron Rash, co-owner of Rash’s Christmas Tree Patch
If you want your holiday to be merry and bright, you better hurry. Rash’s Christmas Tree Patch is expected to be sold out by the middle of December.