Ruth MacLeod has been growing Christmas trees on a Pictou County hill for half a century. | SaltWire
Ruth MacLeod has been growing Christmas trees on a Pictou County hill for half a century.
Ruth MacLeod has been growing Christmas trees for 50 years on the Millstream Road in Pictou County - Aaron Beswick One thing led to another, and they bought the former Grant family farm on the Millstream Road. They logged the spruce that grew up in the pastures, had a family, built a house and started shearing the balsam firs that seeded in the cutovers.
“I watched my father cut 15,000 trees in 12 days with an axe; I know it because I drug them out and saw them counted,” remembered Mike Keddy of his father, Jack, harvesting trees during the ’60s in New Ross.Ruth MacLeod, right, and her sister, Patty Hudson, trim brush for Christmas wreaths at MacLeod Christmas Tree Farm in Pictou County on Monday.
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