Meet Dale and Julie Bystrom and Don Sandberg of Bystrom & Sandberg Trees
Interview with Julie Bystrom. What do you do? We plant, cultivate and grow Christmas trees to sell to wholesalers and retailers. How did Bystrom and Sandberg Tree Farm get started? Dale Bystrom and Don Sandberg started out as friends over 60 years ago when they met as kindergarten classmates in Molalla. Later on in 1980 […]
Christmas Tree Production Through the Year
Finally, the spring rains, that feel as though they drag on well into what should be summer have gone away, and the hot sun is drying out the tree fields. It is of course that rain that we complain about so much that gives us our most favorable growing season for trees. For each week […]
Yule Tree Farms
Protecting Oregon’s natural resources for future generations. By Misty Zakrzewski While most of us have yet to take down the Halloween decorations, Yule Tree Farms is in full swing, hard at work harvesting half a million Christmas trees that will adorn families’ homes this holiday season. Unfortunately, not everyone will buy a real Christmas tree this […]
Helmig Tree Farms
One of Oregon’s oldest Christmas tree farms embodies the holiday spirit. When Lea and Bill Helmig started farming in Clackamas County in 1935, harvesting Christmas trees was not part of their plan. Until 1956, the Helmigs farmed corn, wheat, cattle and sheep on 320 acres, where they built their home. In 1956, the federal government […]
