The Farm

Walk the rows. Pick your tree. Cut it yourself.

Kip's is a third-generation, family owned and operated Christmas tree farm in New Braintree, in the heart of central Massachusetts. We're a choose & cut farm with over 100 acres of beautiful spruces and firs, so bring the family, take your time, and find the tree that's right for your home.

Prefer to skip the saw? We also keep a limited selection of pre-cut trees.

We open the first day after Thanksgiving. To make sure we have enough trees for the years ahead, we keep our season short, so we recommend visiting early.

Doug and his wife shearing young blue-needled trees with long-handled loppers on a sunny fall day — Doug and his wife shaping the trees in October.

Cut Your Own · We're Happy to Help

Bring the family. We'll handle the heavy lifting.

Cutting your own tree should be the fun part of the season, not a chore. We're a family farm, and we like nothing better than helping your family find its tree. Ask us anything along the way.

All the toolsWe provide the saws, so there's nothing you need to bring but your crew. Not sure how to make the cut? We'll show you.
Wrapped for the rideWe'll wrap your tree so it travels home safely, with no broken branches along the way.
Loaded up for youWe're happy to help get your tree onto the roof of your car or into the back of your truck.

Prefer to skip the saw? Pick out one of our pre-cut trees, and we'll wrap and load that one too.

Rows of spruces and firs marked with blue ribbons stretch toward a bare tree on the hill under a wide sky — Blue ribbons mark the top trees that are ready this season.

A mowed grass path between two rows of Christmas trees in afternoon sun — Plenty of room to wander.

A blue farm tractor pulling a cart loaded with a very large cut spruce past a white farmhouse — Bringing a big one in from the field.

Rows of young spruce and fir trees on a hillside under a blue autumn sky, with more planted rows stretching into the distance — The rows in late October, looking down toward the road.

The 1800 Storefront

Homemade wreaths & free hot chocolate

After you've found your tree, warm up inside our 1800 storefront. Free hot chocolate is on us.

Every wreath is tied by hand, from small ones for the door to the big ones that hang on the store. Pick one up while you're here.

Inside you'll find wreaths stacked to the beams, an old sleigh, and Santa keeping an eye on things.

Handmade wreathsCocoa on the house

Inside the old store: wreaths hang along the brick walls and from the beams with red ribbons, beside an antique black sleigh with a goose-pattern blanket and a pair of wooden snowshoes — Inside the store, decked out for the season.

Made by Hand

Wreath Season

Every wreath at Kip's is made by hand, from the small ones for your front door to the giant wreath that goes up on the storefront. Hanging that one takes a lift and a couple of steady hands.

Looking down from above at a man in the barn, smiling and waving, behind a giant wreath of spruce boughs laid across sawhorses, with a blue tractor behind him — Building the big wreath in the shop.

Two people on an orange lift hang a giant wreath with red bows on the brick wall of the store, with the white church steeple behind them — Up it goes on the old brick wall.

The store's white front door with a wreath and red bow, under a black sign reading Kip's Christmas Trees, with wreaths in the snowy windows — A wreath on every door and window.

A Field Guide

Know Your Spruce

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Colorado Blue Spruce

Picea pungens

Color: Silvery blue to blue-green
Needles: Stiff and sharp. Wear gloves when you carry it.
Best for: Heavy ornaments. The branches are strong and well spaced.

Norway Spruce

Picea abies

Color: Deep, glossy green
Needles: Short and dense on drooping branchlets
Best for: That classic full shape. Keep it well watered.

White Spruce

Picea glauca

Color: Pale, bluish green
Needles: Short, blunt-tipped and tightly packed
Best for: A dense, narrow tree for smaller rooms

Close-up of long, soft blue-green needles and new buds on a branch — New buds already set for next year's growth.

Close-up of a young spruce leader with short dark-green needles and orange buds, a blue ribbon tied around the trunk — Short, stiff needles and fresh buds in the rows.

Golden maple leaves backlit against a clear blue sky — October on the farm, before the season opens.

The three-story red brick storefront in late-afternoon sun, with dry-laid stone walls along the road

Rooted in New Braintree

A Farming Town Since 1751

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New Braintree has always been farm country. Long before it was incorporated, cattle were grazing its hills, and for most of its history the town's fortunes have risen and fallen with its dairies, pastures and orchards. A family tree farm here carries on a long tradition.

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New Braintree then and now: old photographs of the town center and its brick store, and today's view of the farm and the common from above.

Before 1660
The land is the homeland of the Quaboag and Nipmuc peoples. A Nipmuc stronghold called Menimesit stood here during King Philip's War in 1675.
1669
The town of Braintree, south of Boston, votes to give each of its households a share of 6,000 acres out west. The tract becomes known as “Braintree Farms,” and it's where the town gets its name.
1709–1730
Settlers return to the land. Livestock was wintered here before families moved in for good, and the northern part of town was used for grazing.
1751
New Braintree is incorporated as a town, with just 14 families in the Braintree Farms area. By 1776 the population reaches nearly 800.
c. 1800
New Braintree cheese is well known in Boston. By 1832 local farmers are sending more than $22,000 a year in cheese, butter and pork to the city.
1865
The New Braintree Cheese Manufacturing Company brings cheesemaking from individual farm dairies into one building. The town keeps more than 1,000 milk cows.
1905
Milk production nears 700,000 gallons a year, ninth highest in Worcester County. Hay, poultry and fruit are on the rise.
1940
Dairying, poultry and orchards lead the local economy, and 76% of residents live in rural areas, the highest share in the county.
Today
About 1,000 people call New Braintree home. Its open fields, stone walls and working farms still shape the landscape, and Kip's is proud to be one of them.

Monday – Thursday	12 noon – 4:30 pm
Friday, Saturday & Sunday	8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Christmas Treesat Kip's Farm

Walk the rows. Pick your tree. Cut it yourself.

Bring the family. We'll handle the heavy lifting.

Homemade wreaths & free hot chocolate

Wreath Season

Know Your Spruce

Colorado Blue Spruce

Norway Spruce

White Spruce

A Farming Town Since 1751

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