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Article: Christmas tree farm is steeped in family tradition.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- December 14, 1998
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Neil and Deb Krueger cherish their home-grown Christmas trees so much that it hurts, just a little, each time one gets cut.
"We know which tree had a foxhole under it and which one the bunnies lived under," Deb Krueger said. "We're very protective."
But it is, after all, a Christmas tree business, and the Kruegers realize that a certain amount of chopping comes with the territory.
The Kruegers, of Lake Elmo, are carrying on a proud family tree farming tradition that started a few miles east, in Stillwater, more than 40 years ago.
Neil's family farmed for many years just off Hwy. 36 - on the way to the St. Croix River - and in 1955 they ...