Christmas tree farmers across the Northeast are struggling to keep their trees alive amid a weeks-long drought

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/climate/northeast-drought-killing-christmas-trees/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit

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  1. Christmas tree farmers across the Northeast are looking decidedly less merry as they struggle to keep their trees alive amid a weeks-long drought that has left vegetation brown, shriveled and crisp.

    [Nearly 60% of the Northeast was in drought last week](https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/climate/northeast-drought-killing-christmas-trees/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit), according to the [US Drought Monitor](https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Northeast), and more than a quarter of it was in severe to extreme drought conditions, having received little to no rain for weeks.

    It’s the young trees at Christmas tree farms that are getting hit hardest, threatening to impact many farms’ tree sales in the future, since it takes about seven to eight years to grow a mature Christmas tree.

  2. Good! How unnecessary are these ornamental trees? Grow food or grow nothing!

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