From Tannenbaum Farms to everywhere in-between: Where to buy your Christmas tree in Centre County

Martha Weidensaul’s voice cracked, with tears pooling in the corner of her right eye, when she reflected on this being the final year for Tannenbaum Farms. For more than 40 years, she and her husband Craig greeted county residents every winter in what’s become central Pennsylvania’s largest cut-your-own-tree farm, where they sold firs, spruces and pines to homes looking for Christmas trees. It’s not that they’re eager to move onto their next stop, Foxdale Village Retirement Community in State College, but they simply can’t move like they used to. At 78 and 82 years old, respectively, the longtime owners know it’s time to hang up their Christmas wreaths and call it a career.

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