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Growing Christmas perfectly with UK produced trees

Demand for wholesale Christmas trees from retailers across the UK has created a year-round specialist business for Herefordshire-based Festive Forestry Services.

Toby Whatley
Head of Machinery and Farm Technology
clock 鈥� 9 min read
Growing Christmas perfectly with UK produced trees

Bucolic images of hand-cutting a tree and the precarious attachment to the family car roof are colourful scenes for Christmas cards, but the process of planting, managing, harvesting and distributing Christmas...

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