Napa County and Sonoma County are well known for their Northern California vineyards, their grape vines, and for their olive trees, but slightly less associated with their Christmas tree farms. But if you’re in northern Napa Valley in advance of the Christmas holiday, and drive down Big Ranch Road, you’ll see 1,500 examples of some of the best trees anywhere, at Tom and Vicki Weinert’s Napa Valley Christmas Tree Farm. The Weinerts are participating in this year’s “Trees for Troops” program, pledging at least 100 of their trees to be sold at the much reduced rate of $25 for the cause. Each Douglas fir tree will have a “Trees for Troops” tag with it on which a personal message can be shared with the military family on the receiving end when those trees show up at the homes of military families on domestic military bases across the country. “Trees for Troops” was started in 2005, and working with the Christmas Spirit Foundation and FedEx, has delivered 34,000 trees to domestically located military families over the last three holiday seasons.
The Napa Valley Christmas Tree Farm is located at 2130 Big Ranch Road will be open until Dec. 24, from 9 a.m. to dusk on Saturdays and Sundays and 12 p.m. to dusk Tuesday through Friday, but closed on Mondays. But for the Napa Valley Christmas Tree Farm’s “Trees for Troops” tree donations to have time to reach their designations, those trees must be purchased before the December 7th deadline.
