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O Christmas Tree, Where Art Thou? The Rush For Live Firs Is On

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A man looks at artificial Christmas trees for sale at the Balsam Hill Outlet store in Burlingame, Calif, Nov. 30, 2018. (Eric Risberg/AP)
A man looks at artificial Christmas trees for sale at the Balsam Hill Outlet store in Burlingame, Calif, Nov. 30, 2018. (Eric Risberg/AP)

By some accounts, there's a bit of a mad rush to buy and put up Christmas trees this year — fresh, real ones — which is good news for the hundreds of tree farmers in Massachusetts, and bad news for yuletide procrastinators.

We discuss with Dave Morin, who is the owner of Arrowhead Acres in Uxbridge, and heads communications for the Massachusetts Christmas Tree Association.

This segment aired on December 7, 2020.

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