Now Williams Tree Farm begins their Christmas activities two weeks before Thanksgiving. For updates, subscribe to our free newsletter! Since the 1980s, Williams Tree Farm has increasingly gone beyond providing trees and focused on providing experiences. But as local people came out to the Williams Tree Farm to get their Christmas trees, the family began pioneering the choose-and-cut model. For decades, the business sent pre-cut trees as far as the Chicago suburbs. By the time these had grown to Christmas-tree-size, a bad winter storm kept locals from getting trees from their usual sources, and in 1946 the Williams agreed to cut and sell some of their trees.
But they provided a lot of timber for The Wagon Wheel resort in Rockton, so to replace the trees that were cut, they planted pine seedlings. After that, the staff says, "We will use this time to ready our hearts as we prepare for the true meaning for the season."įor the first few years after the 900-acre farm was purchased by the Williams family in the 1940s, they raised dairy cattle and hogs. Then they end their season with a children's Live Nativity and Christmas Celebration on Sunday, Dec. They will also be wrapping Christmas presents for members of the Lac Du Flambeau reservation in Northern Wisconsin. in Rockton, on Saturday afternoon they're hosting about 40 volunteers to pack meals with the Rockford-based charity Kids Around the World - their goal is 20,000 meals.
The final weekend of Williams Tree Farm's Christmas season has arrived, offering what Williams Tree Farm is famous for: cut-your-own and precut Christmas trees, visits with Santa, horse-drawn wagon rides, wreaths and garlands, candy, and gifts.
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