Plantation Christmas Tree Farm - Holiday Tree Farms has been bringing the real Christmas tree tradition to millions for over fifty years. Established in 1955, Holiday Tree Farms drastically and permanently shifted the Christmas tree industry moving away from the traditional harvest of forest land trees to a plantation operation, where Christmas trees are farmed as a crop. This pioneering effort was an environmentally friendly direction that allowed innovative techniques of culturing and shearing, shaping the trees to provide the dense, healthy conical shaped trees that we enjoy today.