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    NATURAL WONDER

    Sep 20, 2022 4 minutes
    Written by KHRISTI ZIMMETH
    Photographed and Styled by
     
    GRIDLEY + GRAVES

    has always been Jeannie Kilmer’s favorite holiday, but even she drew the line at owning a Christmas tree farm. When she and her husband, Bruce, purchased their Williamstown, New Jersey, house in 2002, its site posed a unique quandary. The 3-acre parcel included a Christmas tree farm called Charlie Brown’s. “We had no interest in selling Christmas trees,” Jeannie explains, adding that some of the trees resembled the scraggly ones on the beloved TV special. “We just loved the property and that it backed up to woods,” she notes. The first year, the Kilmers spread Christmas cheer by giving trees away. “We did have some people asking if they could buy a tree.

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