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Purinton Family Tree Farm

Huntington, Vermont · Chittenden County

Call ahead unconfirmed for 2026

We couldn’t confirm this farm’s 2026 season — call before you drive.

Purinton is the tree trip a lot of Burlington families have made for decades — half an hour southeast of Burlington, up in the Huntington hills, where the Purintons have been selling maple syrup and Christmas trees for more than forty years. The trees are balsam fir, mostly up to about seven feet, and last season every one of them was $70 with the tax already in.

Park along the road, take a hand saw and a sled, and walk out into the field; nothing is tagged ahead of time here, so the tree you pick is the tree you cut that day. Chainsaws stay home and dogs come on a leash. When you get back they'll shake the tree out and bale it, and on weekends there's hot cocoa, doughnuts and maple treats from the family's sugaring side of the farm.

The facts

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

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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.