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Sleighbell Christmas Tree Farm & Gift Barn
Sutton, Massachusetts · Worcester 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.
Sleighbell has been a Sutton Christmas habit for close to thirty years. The fields hold Fraser, Canaan, and concolor firs plus white pine, and shaking and baling come with the tree — you cut it, they clean it up and tie it on.
The log cabin Gift Barn is half the reason families make the drive: ornaments, holiday decor, and a Santa Express train running through it. Santa himself works a Saturday early in the season. Opening day has been the Friday after Thanksgiving year after year, with weekends after that and weekday afternoons by appointment.
The facts
- Cut-your-own Fraser firs and Canaan firs; pre-cut too
- Opening day 9–4, then Saturdays and Sundays 9–4; weekday afternoons by appointment.
- No reservation needed
- Also at the farm: log cabin gift barn, Santa visits, shaking & baling included
Checked Sep 5 against the farm's own site
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Christmas tree disposal in Massachusetts
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 Boston · Worcester — or Christmas tree disposal in every city we cover →
- How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in Massachusetts?
- 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 2 cities in Massachusetts, 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 Massachusetts?
- Not in words we can stand behind. None of the 2 cities we cover in Massachusetts say on their own pages what becomes of a collected tree, so we won't tell you it is chipped into mulch. What each city does put in writing is on its page.
- 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.