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Evergreen Acres Our website is www.evergreenacres.biz We are a direct marketing farm with the choose and pick approach. We are not a theme park selling ag products.

All produce here is grown here. The only organic farm in Prince William County.

This will be our 36th and final year of selling Christmas trees. We’ve got plenty of trees and won’t run out. This pic...
09/25/2026

This will be our 36th and final year of selling Christmas trees. We’ve got plenty of trees and won’t run out. This pic was taken this evening on 9/25 so this is what the trees look like. No reservations needed.

This will be our final and 36th continuous year of selling Christmas trees. We’ve enjoyed seeing everyone in the past an...
09/25/2026

This will be our final and 36th continuous year of selling Christmas trees. We’ve enjoyed seeing everyone in the past and hope to see you for our final year. If you’ve thought of cutting a live tree and haven’t done it yet, this is the year to come on out. I took this pic this evening (9/25). The grass will be mowed tight for tree sales after the frost hits the flowers in another month. The bees are enjoying the pollen. There are thousands of trees to choose from.

There is a saying among beekeepers that there is a dearth of pollen after the first of July. I have found that if I sto...
09/12/2026

There is a saying among beekeepers that there is a dearth of pollen after the first of July. I have found that if I stop mowing the tree field about that same time that the field will fill with millions of wildflowers. This is a huge bonus for my 33 bee hives. The flowers will frost out mid-October and I will mow it clean and bee ready for tree sales on Black Friday.

People ask me all the time how I get the trees to look so fine. The answer is at the trunk of the tree. Each year abou...
07/31/2026

People ask me all the time how I get the trees to look so fine. The answer is at the trunk of the tree. Each year about mid-July the tree sets buds at the end of all branches. We call the branch at top and center, the leader. The leader usually sets 6 buds; one at center to continue the leader and 5 lateral buds, which we call a whorl. These buds sprout branches the following April. During the shearing process in June I cut the leader back to 10 inches from a length of 16 to 36 inches long. This gives the tree a whorl of branches every 10 inches up the trunk. Other growers might cut the leader back to 14 to 16 inches. At this rate it takes my trees an additional 3 or 4 years to grow to 8 ft. tall. The additional 3 or 4 whorls translates into over 2,000 additional branch tips with needles at the perimeter of the tree. This has been my secret for many years. Check it out for yourself. You can tell the age of a pine tree by counting the number of whorls going up the trunk.

Most people only think about Christmas trees in December. Out here, Christmas gets made in June. Every tree at Evergree...
07/17/2026

Most people only think about Christmas trees in December. Out here, Christmas gets made in June. Every tree at Evergreen Acres is sheared by hand, one at a time; that’s myself on the left and my son, Ben, on the right. That shape you see in December? We just finished doing it here. Four months to go. We’ll see you after Thanksgiving.

I had heavy losses of bee hives back in January during the deep freeze, which left me with less than 10 hives. The loss...
07/11/2026

I had heavy losses of bee hives back in January during the deep freeze, which left me with less than 10 hives. The losses put me in “rebuild mode”. I cancelled NUC sales and mustered together as many NUCs as I could from my meager inventory and with queen cell donations from friends. I’m back over 30 hives now, which puts me in a better place for NUC sales for next year. A NUC is a starter colony, short for “nucleus hive”, consisting of 5 frames with a mated queen and several thousand of her daughter bees. A NUC box is on top of one of the hives with a frame propped at the back end and the lid off. Before the hive outgrows the NUC box, they must be moved to boxes with more room. My boxes hold 10 frames across so now each of the new NUCs has 20 frames. I’ve always enjoyed being part of the beekeeping community.

It looks like a lot of hay, but it is only 1/3 of what I usually put up. There will be more chatter of it this fall whe...
06/08/2026

It looks like a lot of hay, but it is only 1/3 of what I usually put up. There will be more chatter of it this fall when farmers start pulling hay out to feed animals. The drought hit this year’s hay crop hard.

12/14/2025

With the frigid weather coming tomorrow, we've decided to not open for tree sales on Sunday.

12/13/2025

For those of you that still have to get your tree this weekend, please come on Saturday as we'll likely close early on Sunday due to the frigid temperatures.

We still have a great selection of white pine going into our final week of tree sales. The white pine will be reduced $1...
12/09/2025

We still have a great selection of white pine going into our final week of tree sales. The white pine will be reduced $10 this weekend.

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12801 Hazelwood Drive
Nokesville, VA
20181

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