Greetings from the Weir Family! We hope everyone had a happy and healthy start to 2025! In the summer, we added another member to the Weir Family. We adopted a Border Collie / Husky mix puppy and named him Beau. He is being taught the ropes around the farm by our fifteen year old, three legged dog, Rex. Rex is a fan favorite with all our customers and we hope Beau will be too! The winter was very long and cold in northern New Hampshire. We spent a lot of our time in the gym watching our two boys play basketball. Our family travelled to beautiful Montego Bay, Jamaica in March. The warmth and the sunshine was just what we needed to recharge before the start of a busy nursery season. During the winter, Jay, along with our dedicated employees, Jeff and Doug, were able to complete three logging jobs. The only upside of a long, cold winter is the amount of logging we can get done. In line with logging, we also sell dry, seasoned firewood by the cord. Last summer we constructed a large Quonset hut on the farm and we will be able to keep all of our processed firewood under cover. We already have lot clearing and logging jobs lined up for the upcoming year so the supply of firewood will be steady.
Once again, we had a great Christmas season - we thank all of our returning and new customers for their loyalty and business. Our wholesale supply continues to sell out very early - thanks to our returning customer base! We may have some excess this upcoming season, but we will not know that until the trees are sheared and tagged in mid September. It never hurts to call or e-mail an inquiry in regards to wholesale - we keep all of the information on file and you never know what could happen. We are hopeful that we will have a significantly larger harvest in 2026. Choose and cut was a short, but extremely busy season due to Thanksgiving being later in the month. We continue to see many customers travelling to the farm from hours away and we are always glad to see them. Our choose and cut is known for high quality trees, lots of choices, and a great selection of taller trees. We do allow for early tagging of Christmas trees in the Fall, but we do ask that you call or e-mail before visiting the farm to tag. We also had the honor of providing the tree for the Washington Square Park Association in New York City - it was a beauty!
Currently, we have just finished the harvesting of our transplants and seedlings and our plants are travelling far and wide to their new homes. Last year, we invested in a new transplant digger and harvesting is so much easier and efficient. We ship transplants as far south as North Carolina and as far west as Wisconsin. The crew is working on interplanting and we will start our own field planting in the next few days. Transplanting seedlings will be the next step and the work just continues with fertilizing, mowing, and shearing(pruning) will start in mid July. There is always plenty of work to do on the farm! Transplants were again 90% sold out by December - as always, we encourage our nursery customers to place their orders by September. We welcomed back our H2A workers from South Africa on April 10th. Dylan, Justin and Quintin were eager to get back to America and to get back to work. They will be staying with us until Thanksgiving and we appreciate all of their hard work.
Our boys, Jackson and Cooper, are now eighteen and fifteen years old. Jackson is graduating high school this year and plans on attending SUNY Cobleskill in New York to pursue an associates degree in horticulture/greenhouse management. He is truly a farmer at heart and it is exciting to see him going out in the world to study what he loves. He has been a standout three sport athlete this year and we have been to and participated in so many fun senior activities. Definitely been a bittersweet year so far! Cooper is a freshman and also a three sport athlete - he has enjoyed playing alongside his brother in all the sports this past year. He is an avid snowmobiler and downhill skier so he loved the cold and snow this winter. Now that spring is here, he has already started ATVing and mountain biking - he is an active, busy kid. As I write this, the boys are on April vacation and Jackson is with the crew hand planting and Cooper is working with his grandfather mowing all of our fields. We are so blessed to have such hard working, conscientious sons! As always, feel free to e-mail, call or visit. Have a great summer!
Jackson and Cooper Weir, Jay and Christie's sons
Jackson Weir
-The Weir Family
Weir Tree Farms
679 E. Colebrook Road
Colebrook, NH 03576
xmas@weirtreefarms.com