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Mt. Anthony Tree Farms

North Pownal, Vermont · Bennington 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.

The Horsts have been farming this corner of Bennington County since the 1890s, and Mt. Anthony is now the biggest tree operation in southern Vermont — better than 60,000 trees, almost all of them balsam and Fraser fir. The Bennington land is wholesale these days; the family you visit is the North Pownal field on Route 346, planted about 3,000 trees a year on river-bottom sandy loam.

It is an easy trip with small kids: the ground is flat, parking is right there, and you're not hiking a hillside in December. Hand saws and netting are provided, and if the sawing isn't going well someone will come cut it for you. Any size tree, $75 with the tax in. They open the weekend before Thanksgiving, then Friday through Sunday, 9 to 4.

The facts

• Cut-your-own Balsam firs and Fraser firs
• The Saturday and Sunday before Thanksgiving, then Fridays through Sundays 9–4. Any size tree is $75 with tax in.
• Also at the farm: hand saws & netting, help cutting if you want it, flat fields, easy parking

Checked Sep 5 against the farm's own site

What's open this weekend in Vermont →

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Christmas tree disposal and recycling, city by city

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 how to dispose of one, city by city. Christmas tree disposal and recycling by city →

How do I dispose of a Christmas tree in Vermont?

Not at the farm — getting rid of a tree is a city service, and the rules change at the city line. We haven't read a Vermont city's collection page yet. The list linked just above is every city we do have, and each page is that city's own words on the three ways a tree leaves the house: curbside pickup, a drop-off site, or a program that chips it.

Where can I recycle a Christmas tree?

Wherever your own city takes them — it is a city service, so the answer changes at the city line. 40 of the 56 cities on the list linked just above say on their own pages what becomes of a collected tree; the rest describe the collection and stop there, and so do we.

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.