Dear
Friends of Nutkin Knoll Farm,
Welcome and thank you for your interest in
our tenth annual holiday products website. We are a small family farm in Maine.
We grow quality Christmas trees, craft Balsam Fir wreaths and other fragrant
Balsam holiday products, and produce pure Maine Maple Syrup. Our
products grace customers' homes and tables throughout out the
Nation.
Special thanks to all who have played a role our last ten
years -- your encouragement , critiques, enthusiasm and
loyalty have been our sustenance. From the first X-mas trees
we planted 14 years ago when Wesley was 6 months old. to this
spring's start of the 2nd tree rotation and our burly 8th
grade young man, the years have been richly rewarding. We're
still the same small farm in Maine, but now have daughter
Kelsey, the X-mas tree fields ever more fully planted and
sheared, the sugar bush more intensely thinned and
"Tubed" and hints of gray peppering our heads.
The annual "reflections of the year on the farm"
follows. Weather vagarities were much less compared with last
year. Spring's excellent "sapping" season and tree
planting weather began a lush growing season. Our grapes,
peaches, apples and forest tree seeds were exceptionally
productive. Summer veggie gardens and cut flower business and
winter's woods harvests continue to thrive. And now,
November's first week's four snowfalls and nightly teens temps
promise a seasonable start of winter.
Summer's new driveway pavement re-energized scooters, bike
and pogoing activities. Customers won't miss the muddy
dooryard. Kelsey tends her hens and rooster. Her reading,
writing, math and front teeth have all erupted overnight! Wes
mowed tree aisles and basal pruned 2,500 trees for his summer
work. Bike racing, skiing and schoolwork are his passions. A
long planned two-week Costa Rica visit exceeded expectations
for our Spanish skills, cultural attraction and tropical
sights. A full moon rise at a deserted Pacific beach is hard
to top! Good friends, health and family underpin it all -- we
are very fortunate. Wishing you and your family all the
best.
Dedicated to Mother
Marian Tompkins Krakow
August 1, 1918
- January 30, 2002
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