Active 20-30 Christmas Experience

The Active 20-30 Club and Alpine Christmas Trees request your support to help give Christmas to underprivileged children in the Greater Bakersfield area. Present this coupon at any Alpine Christmas Tree lot and 10% of your purchase price will be donated directly to the Active 20-30 Club's Christmas Experience.

10% BACK TO THE CHILDREN

Thank you for your support and have a Merry Christmas!

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Alpine Christmas Tree Decorating Photo Contest

Now, let’s have some fun! We are announcing our first ever decorating Christmas tree contest. It’s simple & fun!  This is how you can play:

1.       Pick up your Christmas tree at any of the Alpine Christmas Tree lots.

2.       Decorate your beautiful, freshly cut tree.

3.       Take a quick pic of your decorated tree and email it to us at alpinexmastrees@gmail.com. Picture submissions will be accepted between November 26 – December 16. Winners will be announced December 19th.

That’s it!

We will post your picture on our Facebook page and the picture with the most likes wins! We have tons of goodies to give to our winners (pics coming soon) so be sure to share our page with your friends so they can “like” your tree.

Don’t forget—Alpine Christmas Trees opens on Friday, November 25^th!

Print the 10% off coupon and get to your nearest Alpine lot this weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving!

34th Anniversary 10% off Coupon

Print off the picture of this coupon and take it to any Alpine Christmas Trees lot and receive 10% off any Christmas tree of your choice!

Christmas Trees Have Arrived!!

The smell of Christmas is in the air as the first load of beautiful fresh cut Christmas trees arrived at the Alpine Christmas Tree lots today.

Here is a sneak peek and a quick "hello" video from Chris Maretich!

Lots open on Friday, November 25th! See ya then!

Trees are coming--Let the count down begin!

Christmas trees are being tagged, cut, baled up, and on their way to your home. Take a look at some fun pictures below from our Oregon Christmas tree farms as we get ready to bring these big boys to their new home!

Meet Chris Maretich, owner and founder of it all! He’s also the Papa Bear (and Grandpa Bear) of the whole clan!

Several weeks before Thanksgiving we walk the rows of trees tagging the perfect ones with these pink or yellow tags. Tagging trees lets us know which ones to cut and which ones to keep on the farm so they can continue to grow for future seasons.

Special order tree for Our Lady of Perpetual Help

This beautiful Christmas tree is yellow tagged—special ordered—for the City of Delano.

Did you know we use helicopters in our Christmas tree harvest? Well we do!

This type of helicopter is used to carry bundles of trees in slings from the farm to the landing where they are baled and ready for delivery.

Here are some pictures of our helicopter in action. Enjoy!

Pretty cool, uh? We think so! Betcha’ did think all this work went into freshly cut Christmas trees.

The trees are coming. Let the count down begin!







Real Versus Fake

100% real Grand Fir Christmas tree from our friend, Mr. Jim Fox!

It’s right about now that the stores put away the left over Halloween décor and costumes, and before we can even say “Happy Thanksgiving!” the Christmas merchandise is stocked on the shelves.  So it seems to be a perfect time to address a very sensitive subject for our family—artificial Christmas trees.

Now, we’re not saying those that have ever bought, or plan to buy, a fake tree will be eternally shunned from our family.  We just think there are a few Christmas tree myths that we need to bust as we approach the Christmas season.

Myth #1. Artificial trees are better for the environment.

                Wrong! Artificial trees are made from plastic and whether it’s today or ten years from now, there will be a time when the trees will disposed of — adding unnecessary plastic waste to our landfills. Also, plastic trees contain polyvinyl chloride, which is a plastic that contains numerous cancer-causing carcinogens and are extremely dangerous during production. And don’t get us started on all the lead that’s in plastic trees and its repercussions. Yikes!

Myth #2. Real trees are bad for our environment because they are cut down.

                Wrong! Each acre of Christmas trees provides the daily oxygen requirements for 18 people. And for every tree that is cut down, 2-3 seedlings are planted in its place. This means Christmas tree farmland is constantly being cultivated to grow more trees. You can’t get more environmentally friendly than planting thousands of trees every year!

And every year trees are recycled for a number of purposes. (Stay tuned for a future post on how trees are recycled in Bakersfield!)

Myth #3. Buying an artificial tree is an economically sound purchase.

                If you think buying a fake tree is a smart decision economically, you are WRONG! The majority of artificial Christmas trees are made in Korea or China. So if you buy a fake tree your dollars are going overseas. Buy a real tree and support American farms, American families, American businesses! And may we add, now is not the time to skimp on our national economical state.

So let’s keep it “real” here—buying a fake tree is not the better option.

And besides, when you purchase a tree at a local Christmas tree lot (preferably an Alpine Christmas Tree lot) you don’t just go for the tree—you go to the lot for the whole experience of picking out your family tree, saying hi to Santa, getting a cup of hot chocolate--the whole sha-bang! 

Keep this tradition alive. And if it’s not a Christmas tradition for your family, well 2011 is a good year to start!

We’d love to hear from you! Do you prefer a real tree or a fake tree? And why?