This year’s honor was bestowed on Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm in Newland, North Carolina. Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm is family-owned and operated; it has grown Fraser firs since 1959.

This year’s honor was bestowed on Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm in Newland, North Carolina. Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm is family-owned and operated; it has grown Fraser firs since 1959.

pose with the 2005 Kennedy Center honorees in front of a Christmas tree sourced from Laurel Springs, North Carolina, in the White House’s Blue Room, Washington DC. Pictured are honorees ...

This year's official White House Christmas tree comes from western North Carolina, one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Helene in late September.White House staff traveled to Cartner's ...

This year, the focus was cleaning up storm damage and preparing for the Christmas tree season. South Carolina Christmas Tree Association president Allison Moses, who owns Penland Christmas Tree ...

Resilient because until recently, the Cartner Christmas Tree Farm in Avery County, North Carolina, where this tree was grown, was not reachable by road because of the damage done by remnants of ...

THE WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS TREE. IT IS COMING FROM WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THIS YEAR. A REMINDER OF A NATION STILL RECOVERING AFTER HALLOWEEN. AND THE TREE WILL BE HARVESTED FROM CARTER’S ...

One of my favorite Christmas stories as a child was The Year of The Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston. An Asheville, North Carolina, native, Houston published the Southern Christmas tale in the ...