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Where can you cut your own Christmas tree? These 8 Delaware farms offer u-pick trees
Greenville’s iconic Janssen’s Market offers tastes of holiday foods
Greenville’s iconic Janssen’s Market offers free tastes of its holiday foods
Temperatures are dropping and the anticipation of the holidays is taking over, which means Christmas tree hunting is sure to be at the forefront of many people’s minds.
Delaware is home to several Christmas tree farms, and many of them offer homemade wreaths, photo opportunities with Santa and a variety of trees to ensure you find the perfect fit “fir” your home.
To help cross tree hunting off your to-do, we’ve compiled a list of places to get a tree in Delaware this year.
Avoid going home empty-handed by keeping up with your favorite tree farms on their websites or via social media to be notified about stock updates and other announcements.
Where to get Christmas trees in Delaware in 2025
Balsam Acres, Laurel
Balsam Acres in Laurel opens for the season Nov. 22. The farm will remain open through Nov. 23 before closing until Dec. 6. The hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends through Dec. 21, when the operation closes for the season at noon.
Tagging is available. All trees are fir, pine or spruce of various heights and are grown on site. Customers pick the tree and the farm brings it to their vehicle.
Firs are $12 per foot; pines and spruces are $8 per foot. Wreaths are available for $30, along with greens for decoration at $2 per pound.
To keep your tree healthy, the farm offers the following advice:
- Place the cut tree in water as soon as you get home, and always keep the water replenished
- Check daily to make sure there is still water in the stand
- If using a water additive, add it to the initial dose of water
- Do not expose the tree to extreme heat from electric heaters, wood stoves, heat vents, radiators or other appliances.
Don’s Tree Farm, Greenwood
Don’s Tree Farm in Greenwood opens on Black Firday at 10 a.m. Tree racks will be stacked and the Christmas shop will be fully stocked with holiday items. A limited amount of 10-foot-tall Douglas and Fraser trees are available, so arrive early if you want one.
Santa Claus will be on site every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and a new train display is available for children to enjoy.
Gaines Christmas Tree Farm, Harrington
Gaines Christmas Tree Farm in Harrington, founded in 1996, opens for business Black Friday and prides itself on delivering the freshest, Delaware-grown trees to customers and cutting only when a selection is made.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays after Black Friday through Dec. 7. Hours after early December will depend on availability, but Gaines warns that this year was a poor growing season.
Note that buyers are not permitted to cut their own trees with a chainsaw. Sales are cash only.
Dyer’s Tree Farm, Dover
Dyer’s Tree Farm in Dover does not have a set opening date; contact the farm for appointment times prior to Black Friday. After then, business hours are from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays; and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Tagging can be done at any time during daylight hours.
All trees up to 8 feet tall are $48, with trees beyond an extra $5 per additional foot. Payment is by cash or check only.
The farm will cut down the tree for you, but you can elect to dig a tree for an additional $5 fee, after which the farm will fill the hole.
McCarthy Tree Farm, Middletown
McCarthy Tree Farm in Middletown opens Thanksgiving weekend Nov. 29 at 10 a.m. The farm is open until 4 p.m.
While you’re searching for a new tree, be sure to greet the new “kids” on the farm: Donkey, also known as Sadie, and Lampie, a miniature pony.
Coastal Christmas Trees, Milton
Coastal Christmas Trees in Milton opens for the season Nov. 28 at 9 a.m.
Christmas trees and handmade wreaths are available, along with warm drinks while you browse. Fraser fir, Douglas fir and Concolor fir tree varieties are available.
Once the holiday season is over, Coastal Christmas Trees offers a tree disposal service. Call them at (302) 278-8822 for more information.
Coleman’s Christmas Tree Farm, near Odessa
Coleman’s Christmas Tree Farm in Odessa opens for cut-your-own Christmas trees the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Families can pick a tree to cut down or choose from a selection of fresh pre-cut trees. Baling service is available for $5 per tree. Admission and parking is free. Payment is cash or check only; an ATM is located in the gift shop.
Weather permitting, free hayrides to the Christmas tree fields are offered daily. Santa Claus will be at Coleman’s most weekends throughout December for free photos. Call ahead to check scheduling.
Hundred Acre Farms, Smyrna
Hundred Acre Farms in Smyrna offers pre-cut and cut-your-own Christmas trees this holiday season. A limited number of wreaths will be available, too.
The farm is open for tree tagging Nov. 22 and Nov. 23. Tree cutting and sales will begin on Black Friday, lasting until the farm is out of inventory. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., weather permitting.
Tree varieties are white pine, Douglas fir, Norway spruce and scotch pine, priced at $14 per foot with a 4-foot minimum. Not that tree heights vary and that not all varieties will be available in the 5-foot-and-up range. Holiday wreaths are 12 inches and priced at $25.
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Date Posted: Saturday, June 20th, 2026
The Delaware State Police Sex Offender Apprehension and Registration Unit (SOAR) is issuing the following public notifications of homeless and wanted sex offenders.
Wanted Sex Offenders
SOAR is currently looking for the following wanted sex offenders after they either failed to register or re-register at their current address. If anyone knows the location of these individuals, please call (302) 739-5882. Information may also be provided by contacting Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) 847-3333. The individuals shown represent only a portion of the current wanted sex offenders. Please see the Delaware Sex Offender Registry website for the complete list.
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The Delaware history column features excerpts from The News Journal archives including The Morning News and The Evening Journal. See the archives at delawareonline.com.
100 years ago, The Evening Journal, June 21, 1926
Jealous man kills woman, wounds boy
Oliver K. Higgins, aged 33 years, of Washington Street, in a fit of jealousy late Saturday night, is alleged to have pumped seven bullets from an automatic revolver into Mrs. Edna M. Martin, 40 years old, of Spruce Street, killing her.
Charles Brown, the 15-year-old of Mrs. Gladys Brown, was shot in the jaw and shoulder by Higgins but will recover. Mrs. Brown, also of the Spruce Street address, is the sister of the slain woman. …
Mrs. Martin, who was employed by the Home Baking Company on Market Street, left the store at a late hour Saturday night, accompanied by Paul A. Crawford of Marshallton and went home. They found Mrs. Brown sitting in the dining room with Julius K. Bowman of Newport.
The women and men sat around the table for a short time. At 11:45 o’clock, hearing someone taking out a window screen in the parlor, Mrs. Brown went to the hall to see what caused the noise.
She saw Higgins step in the window with a gun in his hand. She opened the door and ran off the porch.
Higgins failed to see Mrs. Brown and continued to the dining room where Mrs. Martin and the two men were sitting. He leveled the revolver at their heads and said, “Stick your hands up everybody, and I don’t mean maybe.”
Higgins then asked for Mrs. Brown. Learning she had gone out the front door, he ran after her, passing her as she crouched behind a hedge a few feet from the doorway. He returned to the dining room, but the men had fled. He then turned to Mrs. Martin and fired as she ran. …
Leaving the dead woman at the head of the steps, Higgins rushed in the back room in search of Mrs. Brown. Charles Brown, who had been sleeping, awoke because of the noise. …
Hearing the boy going down the stairs, Higgins stepped to the stair rail and shot him twice. …
Mrs. Brown went to the drug store of Otto H. Miller at 22nd and Pine streets to telephone police. …
Officers surrounded the Brown house … and arrested Higgins. …
Higgins met Mrs. Brown several months ago when he was in the employ of the United Cigar Store, and Mrs. Brown was working nearby. He is said to have become jealous over the attention of other men to Mrs. Brown, who is divorced. She asked him to stop annoying her and appealed to police.
After Higgins threatened Mrs. Brown with a gun, she told her employer who called the United Cigar Company and made a complaint to the manager. Shortly after this, Higgins was discharged.
50 years ago, The Morning News, June 23, 1976
Bill would jail parents of delinquent kids
A tough measure that provides for jailing the parents of delinquent children or requiring them to spend weekends with delinquents at juvenile detention centers has been introduced in the Delaware Senate.
The bill is the brainchild of the community-based services staff of the juvenile corrections bureau.
“This gives a way to coax them (the parents),” said John J. Mulvena, juvenile corrections chief. “If not to coax them, to require them. If not require them, jail them.”
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Herman Holloway Sr., D-Wilmington.
Mulvena said it is “directed at parents who are reluctant to participate in the responsible supervision of their children.”
He said due to “stubbornness, ignorance or neglect,” his staff often ends up acting as “mother, father, aunt, uncle or surrogate” for children “while the parents get off scot-free.”
20 years ago, The News Journal, June 26, 2006
Storms wallop Sussex with 6-8 inches of rain
Jack English knew he was in trouble early Sunday morning.
He kept waking up to the sound of his Seaford basement sump pump trying to keep up with the downpour outside….
At first, he found a few inches of water on his basement floor. Then, all of a sudden, his backyard was completely flooded and the rising water blew out his basement window. …
“I was evacuated by the fire department,” he said. …
In six to eight hours, 7 inches fell in Bridgeville, more than 8 inches in Georgetown and nearly 6 inches in Laurel….
The Seaford Fire Company had its first sign of trouble at 7:30 a.m., when a crew responded to a person trapped in a car by rising water. As the morning went on, rescue crews turned to boats.
An estimated 300 people were evacuated from homes at three mobile home parks southeast of Blades.
Meanwhile, in Seaford, concern grew as water levels rose in the Nanticoke River and Williams Pond. As a precaution, 110 residents of Lifecare at Lofland Park rehabilitation center were evacuated to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. …
At the Seaford Walmart, a team of swift water rescuers from Salisbury, Maryland helped people trapped in the parking lot, with water up to the top of some cars. …
Bridges at Craigs Mill Road and Woodland Road washed out. …
The American Red Cross opened a shelter at Woodbridge High School in Bridgeville. About 30 people were staying there Sunday night.
Reach reporter Ben Mace at rmace@gannett.com.
DELAWARE COUNTY, Ind. — All lanes closed on I-69 in the southbound direction in Delaware County on Friday morning.
Authorities with the Indiana State Police were dispatched to the 240.5 mile marker on a report of a crash involving a semi at approximately 8:08 a.m.
All lanes are now open.
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