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Listings:

Adams County

• The Pine Patch - Choose and Cut Christmas Trees, Handmade wreaths, tree stands, and tree bags. Complementary tree netting. Will deliver in town for $5 fee.
  26th Street and Elm Avenue, Hastings, NE 68901. Phone: 402-462-6507. Email: daveglass@alltel.net. Directions: Northeast edge of Hastings at 2510 N Elm. Click here for a map and directions. . Open: from the day after Thanksgiving to the Sunday before Christmas, Saturday and Sunday, 9 am to 6 pm; weekdays, 1 to 6 pm. we also grow larger landscape trees that can be transplanted with our tree spade. We have Maple, Oak, River Birch, Flowering Crab and Lindens along with Prairie Gold Nebraska Aspen Trees.  We also do spraying for Bagworm and Tip Blight in Pine Trees and Commercial Weed Spraying. (UPDATED: November 12, 2008)
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Blue Spruce, Scotch Pine, White Pine, Other Spruce
  Pre-Cut varieties: Fraser Fir and Douglas Fir Trees from Michigan.
• C. E. Wilcox Tree Farm - Many trees of all sizes.
  2220, 41 Road, Kenesaw, NE 68956-2510. Phone: 308-647-5451. Directions: 5 miles south and east of Gibbon, I-80 exchange. Open: Day after Thanksgiving to Christmas, 4 to 5 pm, daily.
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Scotch Pine

Boyd County

• Ellwangers Greenhouse - Creates own wreaths and swags, plus a floral and gift shop. Box 74, Butte, NE 68722. Phone: 402-775-2300. Fax: 402-775-2300. Directions: 630, 3rd St in Butte. Open: Saturday after Thanksgiving to Christmas; Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm; Sunday, 1 to 12 pm. Christmas Open House Saturday after Thanksgiving, 9 am to 5 pm; November 28, 9 am to 12 pm.
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Norway Spruce, Scotch Pine.

Buffalo County

• Hardins Tree Farm - Christmas trees- you choose and we cut, Christmas wreaths, gift shop
  6315 39th Road, Kearney, NE 68847. Phone: 308-440-6911. Email: hardinstreefarm@charter.net. Open: Weekends Saturdays 9am to 5pm Sundays 10am to 5pm. Directions: East of Kearney on Highway 30, 1.5 miles east from the Airport Road. Turn South on Imperial Avenue for .25 miles, then west on 39th Road for .75 mile. Click here for a map and directions. We are open the day after Thanksgiving and weekends till Christmas. Payment: Cash, Check, Visa/MasterCard. (UPDATED: November 08, 2009)
  Christmas tree varieties:
  You Choose and We cut varieties: Eastern White Pine, Scotch Pine.

Clay County

• Russells Co. Pines -
  6082 E. Lochland Road, Trumbull, NE 68980. Phone: 402-463-8024. Directions: 2 miles north of Hastings on Hwy 281, 5 miles east. Open: Thanksgiving weekend; weekends until Christmas, 9 am to 5 pm.
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Austrian Pine, Scotch Pine, Other Pine
• Spring Ranch Tree Farm - Fresh wreaths and handmade jewelry.
  30491 Rd E, Fairfield, NE 68938. Phone: 402-726-2152. Email: sh71515@navix.net. Directions: 5 miles west of Fairfield to Rd E, 2 miles south. Open: from the day after Thanksgiving to December 19; Thursday to Sunday, daylight hours.
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Douglas Fir, Scotch Pine

Dawson County

• Heins Pines Christmas Trees & Wreaths - Christmas trees-you choose and you cut, Christmas wreaths and boughs, saws provided, trees tied,
  75861 Rd 424, Cozad, NE 69130. Phone: 308-784-3587. Email: heins@cozadtel.net. Directions: 3 ½ miles east of Cozad, NE on highway 30 and ½ south on road 424. And for a map to our farm, click here.  Open: daylight hours after Thanksgiving. Payment: Cash, Check. Nativity scene with live animals open daily. Fun and friendly farm setting.
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Douglas Fir, Frasier Fir, Scotch Pine, White Pine

Furnas County

• Porky-Pines Tree Farm - Trees available for landscaping. Tree spade available, fresh greenery, swags, and wreaths, and homemade cookies.
  72505 Rd 425, Arapahoe, NE 68922. Phone: 308-962-7443. Directions: On Hwy 6-34, 1 mile east, 2 miles north of Arapahoe.  Open: from the day after Thanksgiving to December 27; Saturday, 9 am to dusk; Sunday to Friday, 1 pm to dusk.
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Austrian Pine, Scotch Pine

Howard County

Knox County

• Bow View Farm - Candy and coloring books for the kids.
  88664, 550 Ave, Crofton, NE 68730. Phone: 402-388-4798. Email: bowview@bloomnet.com.  Directions: One mile west of Crofton on Hwy 12, 3-½ miles south on 550 Ave. Open: Two weekends after Thanksgiving, 10 am to 3 pm, Saturday and Sunday.
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Austrian Pine, Blue Spruce, Scotch Pine
• T. H. E. Tree Farm - Wreath, decorations. Pick and tag your tree in advance. Also, open weekdays by appointment. Late afternoons call 640-3820 cell or home phone. 
  54458, 880 Road, Bloomfield, NE 68718. Phone: 402-373-4866. Directions: 1 mile south of Bloomfield Broadway. Open: October 2, 3; 1 to 5 pm Pick and tag trees anytime after Thanksgiving; that weekend; and Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays before Christmas; Friday and Saturday, 10:30 am to 5 pm; Sunday, December 5, 12, 1 to 5 pm.
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Blue Spruce, Scotch Pine

Merrick County

• Poverty Ridge Pines - Wreaths, stands.
  548 L Road, Chapman, NE 68827-3734. Phone: 308-986-2323. Email: nielfarm@gpcom.net.  Directions: 4 and a half miles north of Chapman, 2 and a half miles west. Open: from the day after Thanksgiving to December 23; 9 am to 5 pm.
  Christmas tree varieties:
  U-Choose and Cut your own: Blue Spruce, Scotch Pine

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