Christmas Trees, Santa Visits, and Wreathmaking Summary
Cut Your Own Christmas Tree Introduction - For New Visitors
We've been growing Cut-your-own Christmas Trees at Emmerich Tree Farm since 2007 and have worked to improve the customer experience each year. We implemented a reservation system in 2019 (yes, even before the days of covid) to help ease parking issues and make visitors experience more enjoyable. So here is how reservations work at our farm:
- Book a reservation for any Daytime visit between 11/21/26 and 12/11/26 here on our site
- Your reservation is $40 (plus platform fees). $40 is then credited from your tree purchase at the farm upon checkout.
- When you arrive, a team member will confirm your reservation and assign you a parking spot.
- You choose and cut a tree, shop, grab a bite, and we have your tree waiting for you at your car when you're ready to go, with team members in the lot to help you with tying.
If you're looking for pre-cuts or want to choose-and-cut a little later in the season check out our schedule for hours we are open without reservations required.
Christmas Tree Farmer Update
2026 has been a very good year for growing Christmas Trees here at Emmerich Tree Farm. Due to the unprecedented growth, coupled with continual improvement of our crop, we will be offering more trees than usual this year. Therefore, we will be expanding our cut-your-own reservation slots, opening before Thanksgiving for the first time. Each day’s traffic will be limited as usual, we will just add several days to the schedule.
The growth this year has improved the larger trees that suffered deer damage prior to installation of our fence, or suffered frost damage. Our larger trees will be value priced, to make room for replacements. Please see our inventory for specifics on our available trees.
This year we will tag and price all trees in the field. If the tree is not tagged, you will be charged the standard price for that size tree. The trees have been measured in the field allowing 6 inches for the stump with the top determined by USDA standards. In our pricing, we will distinguish between the quality of trees in accordance with Grading Standards. Trees which fulfill our standard will be offered at the standard price for their size. Premium trees will carry a premium and slightly lesser grade trees will be offered at a reduced price. This practice has been widely adopted by the cut-your-own industry and is designed to more fairly distribute our trees throughout the season. This will also speed up the checkout process, avoiding the measuring of the trees at the processing area. All trees above 5 ft that we have inventoried will be tagged and priced.
Santa is back for 2026
The Real Santa Experience takes place in the evenings after our tree operation wraps up for the day. Based on feedback from our first year of operation, we are starting earlier in the day and have added a few spots for each wagon ride. We also are sensitive to the current economy, so we are keeping the price at $20 for adults, and $22 for children, with children under 1 free.
The farm will transform with Christmas lights placed along a path from our farm store to a beautifully decorated cabin up on the east hill. Ticketed families will ride on a special tractor wagon “sleigh” through the farm field along with their special elf up to the cabin where they will be welcomed by a resident Elf and Mrs. Claus into a warm and cozy indoor space. Here they will have little activities to participate in as their group waits to sit with a professional, ‘Real-Beard’ Santa for a picture and a conversation. Bring your phones and/or cameras for the photo. The total experience runs about 30 minutes
More Wreathmaking Classes
Our wreathmaking classes are a great local night out with family and friends. A small group gathers together to put together a custom wreath they get to take home with them. Wreath assembly happends in our gift shop amongst the festive gifts and smells of the holiday. We've added more classes, including some earlier ones.
We're looking forward to another festive season at the farm.
