As the temperatures drops and snow starts to fly the sound of jingle bells rings out. The sent of pies, cakes and candies fill the air. There are three enduring images of the Christmas season, the manger, Santa Clause and the Christmas Tree. What a better way to partake in the festivities than to go to an ATSF tree farm and purchase a Scots Pine, Blue Spruce, Douglas-Fir or Fraser Fir tree for your families Christmas celebration. A Christmas tree farm is an important and solid small business opportunity. Its a business that supplies a worthy demand, it creates jobs and is good for the economy. The first Christmas tree farm was formed in 1901. If you wanted to start a Christmas tree farm it can be a challenge to get started but once you get it going it can have great pay outs. You can be a part time tree grower or a full time grower. It depends on what you think you can handle and what will be best for your time and energy. You just need relatively flat ground to grow on and to spray for pest. Pest can include but are not limited to the pine shoot Beatle, the gypsy moth and the Balsam woolly adelgid. Obviously there can be other pest such as deer, elk, gophers, ground squirrels and other such mammals.
The growing of Christmas trees is a great way to bring in supplemental income for such things as retirement or for college funds.To the average citizen a tree farm may be just the place they go to in order to get that one of a kind tree for the Christmas season. But if we investigate a little further we can see tree farms are a very important part of Americas future. The starting, maintaining and growing of timber is important with the need for wood for paper, cardboard and other wood based material. Other profitable wood products include transplants, Christmas trees boughs, sawlogs, post, poles, and firewood.The ATFS (American Tree Farm System) is the oldest certification system in America. They currently certify over 26 million acres of private forest. ATFS certifies private forests, primarily farmed by individuals. In short they make sure that this process is done right. You might be wondering how it is that someone would be able to get into the tree farm opportunity and the answer is that you can't just get up one morning and decide to do. Its very involved and time consuming.To be eligible to be a member of the Forest Ag program, first off one must be a land owner. You have to have at least 40 acres to devote to your tree farm forest. Second you must submit to a Colorado State Forest Service-approved forest management plan. You must submit a request for inspection on an annual basis, then pay an inspection fee. Thirdly you must send in an accomplishment report, and fourthly send in a work plan for every year. Finally you must have the approved property for your tree farm to be inspected by a CSFS forester.Tree farming may not be for everyone. But you can’t deny the need for such a enterprise. We are running out of our natural resources for timber and paper so its as necessary as ever to consider a profitable career in tree farming.
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