Jordan Rasmussen
Published: December 4, 2008

HAZEL GREEN - At Budden’s Tree Farm owner Dick Budden is an expert and he has been selling Christmas trees for seven years.

“We sell 2 to 300 every year. We are in the season right now selling Christmas trees as a matter of fact we have some costumers right now,” said Dick.

Dick went to help his costumers so I looked around to find that perfect real Christmas tree. I came across one that was too small, one looked like a Charlie brown tree, one was not green enough, one had no top to it, and one was so big I did not think I could cut it down myself.

When I finally found my tree,  Dick started to cut it down, then I tried but it was too hard, so Dick used his chain saw to cut down my tree.

Dick described the best Christmas tree.

“Some trees hold their needles better than others, of course the most popular Christmas tree is the Frasier Fur, and everybody wants a Frasier,” said Dick.

After cutting down my tree it was time to warm up with Kay Budden’s hot coco.

“Over the weekend over three days, I serve over 210 cups of hot chocolate,” said Kay.

It tasted amazing!

“I just don’t want to miss the joy on some of the kids faces, some of the kids look so happy, you no some kids are so glad to, we got a tree we got a tree, ya know,” said Kay.

It was now time to take my tree home and decorate it.

Budden Tree Farm is located at: 1908 Sinsinawa Road in Hazel Green, Wisconsin

There phone number is 608-748-4523.

Jordan Rasmussen can be reached at Jordan.Rasmussen@loras.edu