Buy Real Christmas Trees

This is an email I received from the head of the Vocational-Agricultural department at Middletown High.

Arguments for buying real Christmas Trees...

The National Christmas
Tree Association notes that 500,000 acres of Christmas trees in the U.S. provide
oxygen for 9 million people (and jobs for more than 100,000).

Connecticut grows over 5000 acres of Christmas trees, supplying the oxygen needs for around 100,000 residents.

Recycled Christmas trees are used to provide nest materials for birds.

Sunken trees offer protected habitat for fish in New Hampshire.

Communities along the battered Gulf Coast use Christmas trees to rebuild dunes and bolster wetlands.

And, last year, Canada's Biolyse Pharma began extracting a key ingredient of Tamiflu- a flu-fighting drug in high demand-from recycled Christmas tree needles.

And remember, real Christmas trees are a farm commodity, like carrots, apples, and oranges. They are better for the environment and smell great too. Christmas tree farming also keeps local workers employed and helps fuel the local economy. The sales of Connecticut’s Christmas trees add up to about $20 million each year, the vast majority of which stays right here in the state.

Happy Holidays!
Rebecca