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Tammen Treeberry Farm

Wilmington, Illinois · Will County

Opens Nov 27 usual opening — confirm for 2026

Usually opens the Friday after Thanksgiving (Nov 27) — the farm hasn’t posted its 2026 dates yet, so confirm before you drive.

Tammen is the south side's answer to the long drive north — 160 acres of Christmas trees on Essex Road outside Wilmington, planted since 1956 and still worked by the same family. It's one of the largest choose-and-cut farms in Illinois, and the scale shows in the size range: Scotch and white pine grow to about fifteen feet, Douglas fir to ten, Fraser to nine, Canaan to eight.

The same ground grows 50 acres of blueberries the rest of the year, which is where the second half of the name comes from. Tree season opens the day after Thanksgiving and runs seven days a week, 8 to 4:30 — no ticketed attractions, just a lot of trees and room to walk. This season's dates aren't posted yet, so call before you load everyone in the car.

The facts

• Cut-your-own Fraser firs and Canaan firs
• Seven days a week, 8–4:30, from the day after Thanksgiving.
• Also at the farm: pick-your-own blueberries in July

Checked Sep 5 against the farm's own site · farm website

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Christmas tree disposal and recycling in Illinois

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 who takes it in Chicago — or Christmas tree disposal in every city we cover →

How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in Illinois?

Not at the farm — getting rid of a tree is a city service, and the rules change at the city line. We read the tree collection page for 1 city in Illinois, linked just above: each one says whether the tree goes out for curbside pickup or to a drop-off site, and what has to come off it before it does.

Is there Christmas tree recycling in Illinois?

The one city we cover in Illinois says on its own page what becomes of a collected tree, and our page quotes that sentence. Where a city doesn't say, we don't say it either.

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.