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@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-09 14:00:14

"Fir or faux: which Christmas tree is best for the environment?"
#Christmas #ChristmasTree #Environment

Fir or faux: which Christmas tree is best for the environment?
Using an already existing artificial tree until its bedraggled end will be more environmentally friendly than buying a felled pine every year, but the answer isn’t clearcut

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-12-06 15:26:53

After a big family breakfast the #ChristmasTree got trimmed, which is holiday-speak for hanging stuff on it. Besides a string of white LED lights and traditional red and gold ribbon, it is a mixture of unique balls, personal decorations and hand made ornaments. Each of our Christmas stockings will usually have a new ornament, almost always handmade, so after 47 years of marriage we have a large storage container full of tree decorations that got bumped from regular rotation.
One of the decorations posted below is hated by my wife - can you guess which one?
#HappyHolidays

@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2025-12-03 01:01:21

Christmas tree acquired. Unfortunately, we can't move it into place because there is Lego building going on. When we reach a stopping point, we'll fold the table and put it in the corner.
#Lego
#ChristmasTree

a picture of a Christmas tree still in the bailing sitting in a tree stand in my garage. to the right is my car, behind it is my workbench, and to the left is another workbench with a miter saw and scraps of wood.
a folding wooden table full of Lego from two sets. the Lego pieces are neatly stacked and grouped by color. each side as it's own piles. in the background is a rocking chair sitting in the corner.
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-12-06 13:56:21

Good Morning #Canada
Have you put up your #ChristmasTree yet? #StatsCan (2021 census data) reports there are 1,364 Christmas tree farms. Ontario (418) had the most farms, followed by British Columbia (276) and Quebec (257). Nova Scotia’s 213 farms were more than the combined total of the Prairie and Maritime provinces (199). Canadian Christmas tree producers earned nearly $163.5M in 2021, and exported over 2.4 million fresh Christmas trees that same year. most of which (97.2%) ended up in the United States. Final destinations for most of them were Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia. Trump's tariffs hit artificial trees with a 30% price hike which means it could be an excellent year for real Canadian trees in the U.S. market. Most of the remaining exports in 2021 were to warmer climates in the Western Hemisphere, including Panama, Curaçao, Bermuda, Aruba, St. Maarten (Dutch part) and Barbados.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HoHoHo
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/xma