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Pinestead Tree Farms

Isanti, Minnesota · Isanti County

Opens Nov 21

Opens November 21.

Pinestead sits on Highway 65 north of the Cities at Isanti, and it's built for families who make a whole day of it. Fraser and balsam fir, blue spruce, Black Hills spruce and white pine grow in the choose-and-cut fields, and a lighted lot behind the kiosk holds fresh-cut trees brought over from a second farm five miles away — that's how they can put out twelve-footers. A greeter meets you at the kiosk with a saw, a map and an opinion about which fir smells strongest and which one holds its needles.

Santa comes five days — Thanksgiving Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then the Saturday and Sunday after — 11 to 2 each time. There's a campfire and a food truck on the big weekends, cider and cookies in the gift shop on quiet weekdays, a model train layout inside, and leashed dogs are welcome the length of the fields. Shaking, baling, drilling for a spiked stand and tying down are all part of the price.

The facts

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

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Christmas tree disposal and recycling in Minnesota

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 Minneapolis · Saint Paul — or Christmas tree disposal in every city we cover →

How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in Minnesota?
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 Minnesota, 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 Minnesota?
Both cities we cover in Minnesota say on their own pages what becomes of a collected tree, and our pages quote 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.