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Jones Family Farms and Winery
Shelton, Connecticut · Fairfield County
Opens by Nov 22 usual opening — confirm for 2026
Usually opens the weekend before Thanksgiving (Nov 21–22) — the farm hasn’t posted its 2026 dates yet, so confirm before you drive.
Jones has been a harvest-your-own farm for more than 75 years, and Shelton families plan a whole afternoon around it. Balsam, Fraser and Douglas firs, Angel white pine and Colorado blue spruce cover the hills, with pre-cut trees waiting in the barnyard for anyone who'd rather skip the saw.
The barnyard is half the reason people drive here: a cider and cookie canteen, a gift shop full of ornaments, and the winery tasting room next door. Cut your own and you leave with a pewter ornament, and Santa turns up the weekend before Christmas. Trees run from the weekend before Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve — cutters need to be in the fields by 4.
The facts
- Cut-your-own Balsam firs and Fraser firs; pre-cut too
- Open daily 9–5:30 through Christmas Eve, closed Thanksgiving Day; be in the fields by 4 if you're cutting your own.
- Also at the farm: winery tasting room, cider & cookie canteen, gift shop
Checked Sep 5 against the farm's own site · farm website
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Christmas tree disposal and recycling, city by city
The other end of the same trip: when the tree comes down in January, disposal and recycling are a city job and the rules change at the city line — here is how to dispose of one, city by city. Christmas tree disposal and recycling by city →
- How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in Connecticut?
- Not at the farm — getting rid of a tree is a city service, and the rules change at the city line. We haven't read a Connecticut city's collection page yet. The list linked just above is every city we do have, and each page is that city's own words on the three ways a tree leaves the house: curbside pickup, a drop-off site, or a program that chips it.
- Where can I recycle a Christmas tree?
- Wherever your own city takes them — it is a city service, so the answer changes at the city line. 40 of the 56 cities on the list linked just above say on their own pages what becomes of a collected tree; the rest describe the collection and stop there, and so do we.
- Who handles Christmas tree removal once the season is over?
- The city, or the county authority that runs collection for it — that is the body every page in that January list is read from, and the only one that can tell you when it is running. Private haulers will take a tree away as well; they are not on this site, because we only write down what a city puts in writing itself.