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Wilkens Fruit & Fir Farm
Yorktown Heights, New York · Westchester County
Opens Nov 28 usual opening — confirm for 2026
Usually opens November 28 — the farm hasn’t posted its 2026 dates yet, so confirm before you drive.
Wilkens is the farm New York City families drive an hour north for. It grows apples and peaches the rest of the year, then hands the hillside over to Fraser firs from Thanksgiving weekend on — cut-your-own out in the rows, pre-cut Frasers by the stand, and a red-barn market, bakery, and country shop to work through afterward.
The thing to know is opening weekend. Wilkens sells timed reservations by the tree — one booking, one tree, one car — and last season every slot went inside four days, waitlist included. From December 1 the reservation drops away entirely: walk in Wednesday through Monday, 10 to 3:30, closed Tuesdays.
Every tree comes with a free cup of hot cider, and the crew shakes, bales, and ties it to your roof. Bring rope if you have it.
The facts
- Cut-your-own Fraser firs and Douglas firs; pre-cut too
- Opening weekend is reservation-only and sells out; from December 1 on it's walk-in, Wed–Mon 10–3:30, closed Tuesdays. Fields shut at 4 — it's too dark to see a tree after that.
- Reservation required
- Also at the farm: farm market & bakery, wreaths & roping, free hot cider with every tree
- Opening day: November 28
Checked Sep 4 against the farm's own site · farm website
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Christmas tree disposal and recycling in New York
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 Albany · New York · Rochester · Syracuse · Yonkers — or Christmas tree disposal in every city we cover →
- How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in New York?
- 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 5 cities in New York, 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 New York?
- 3 of the 5 cities we cover in New York 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.