Christmas tree farms in Butler County were bustling on Black Friday and through the weekend after Thanksgiving with people who revel in the smell and the holiday atmosphere that emanates from freshly cut fir, spruce and pine trees.

“It was a great day today,” Jack Grupp of Grupp’s Christmas tree Farm north of Harmony said Friday.

The family run farm opens the week before Thanksgiving, but the weekend after turkey day is when tree sales launch.

Grupp said it is not to early to buy a live tree and enjoy it through Christmas and New Year’s with a little care and attention.

“It’s not too early and they’ll hold up well past Christmas,” Grupp said. “We always recommend making a fresh cut on the bottom before putting it up. Add water right away, check the water a couple times a day. That’s go

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