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Venturing out into the countryside to harvest your live Christmas tree can be a fun, memory-making holiday activity.

Check out where you can find that best tree ever - in our guide to choose-and-cut Christmas tree farms in the U.S., Canada and around the world, along with mail order houses and how-to's on picking out your perfect Christmas tree this year online...

National Christmas Tree Association - Search for Christmas tree farms in the United States and Canada, the U.K., Germany, Denmark and Mexico, and check out a list of retailers who sell Christmas trees by mail order and via the Internet.

Pick Your Own Christmas Tree - One-stop browsing for Christmas tree farms throughout the U.S. by state, with contact details and links to official Web sites where available, with additional guides to the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, New Zealand and South Africa.

Christmas Trees & More - From the University of Illinois Extension, with a complete Christmas Tree Farm guide to Illinois with contact details, links plus more for Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana. And tool around the rest of the site for Christmas tree facts, traditions, tree types, related links.

Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York - Enter your zip code to find listings of farms near you, with details on tree varieties available for harvesting, driving directions, story articles.

Captain Jack's Christmas Tree Farm Network - Comprehensive listing of tree farms in the continental United States, Alaska and Canada.

The Virtual Christmas Tree Farm - Fun kid-stuff from Christmas Tree Farmers of Ontario with a step-by-step guide to planting, tree care, harvesting, how to's for cutting your own, plus a bit of history and an identification list.

Selection and Care of Christmas Trees - Good, general guide to what to look for and how to pick your choose-and-cut or retail lot Christmas tree, from the Virginia Cooperative Extension.

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