Piney Acres Farm

Fortville, Indiana · Hancock County

Opens Nov 21

Opens November 21.

Piney Acres is 73 acres northeast of Indianapolis, and it runs like a farm that expects you to stay a while. A hay wagon carries you out to the u-cut fields and brings you and your tree back to the barn, where the shaking and baling happens over free homemade hot cocoa and popcorn grown on the place. If you'd rather not swing a saw, the pre-cut yard keeps Fraser firs up to twelve feet.

Families who care which tree they get come in early November to tag one — November 1–15, one to five, by appointment. Staff will cut for you if you call ahead, for a $40 fee. Santa turns up on weekend afternoons, the barnyard animals are free to visit, and the farm store carries stands, ornaments, handmade wreaths and swags. Glimmer Lights, the evening train ride to the North Pole, is a separate ticketed event on its own schedule.

The facts

Cut-your-own Fraser firs; pre-cut too
Trees are available November 21 through December 21, but the farm hasn't posted this season's day-by-day hours yet — check before you drive. Tree tagging runs November 1–15, 1–5, by appointment.
Also at the farm: hay wagon out to the fields, hot cocoa & popcorn, barnyard animals, farm store
Opening day: November 21

Checked Sep 4 against the farm's own site · farm website

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Christmas tree disposal and recycling in Indiana

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 Indianapolis — or Christmas tree disposal in every city we cover →

How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in Indiana?: 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 Indiana, 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 Indiana?: The one city we cover in Indiana 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.