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Dutchman Tree Farms

Manton, Michigan · Wexford 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.

Dutchman is the biggest name in Michigan trees. The family planted its first crop near Manton in 1960 and now farms somewhere between nine and ten thousand acres across northern Michigan, selling close to a million trees and roughly half a million wreaths a year — the largest single Christmas tree operation east of the Mississippi.

The choose-and-cut field on Walker Road is the small public corner of all that. Walk the rows and cut your own, or take one already cut and waiting; the crew bales, drills and trims it before it goes in the truck. Kids get a free zip line, a petting zoo, and hot chocolate and cookies, and Santa turns up on a handful of weekend dates.

The facts

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

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Christmas tree disposal and recycling in Michigan

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 Ann Arbor · Detroit — or Christmas tree disposal in every city we cover →

How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in Michigan?
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 Michigan, 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 Michigan?
1 of the 2 cities we cover in Michigan 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.