Ben's Christmas Tree Farm
✓ 2026 confirmed📍 Harvard, Illinois
🎄 Christmas trees
| Season & 2026 dates | Opening November 27, 2026, the day after Thanksgiving. Hours 9am-4:30pm and 10am-4:30pm. |
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| How to buy | Illinois MarketMaker, the find-a-farm directory the Illinois Department of Agriculture points to, lists these ways to buy direct: on-farm sales, retail. Products as published in that directory: Christmas Trees. The farm describes itself this way in its directory profile: Family-owned choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm on 100 acres in Harvard, IL, just 1 hour from Chicago western suburbs. We grow 8 varieties of real trees (specializing in fraser fir) with no herbicides or pesticides. Open Black Friday and Saturdays-Sundays Nov 28-Dec 14, 2025. Free horse-drawn wagon rides, photo-ops with Santa, saws provided. Bring the family and make it a tradition! |
| Practices, in the farm's own words | Certified Naturally Grown |
| Tillage & soil | This farm has not published how it works its soil, so we are not going to guess. If you farm here, tell us and we will add it. See the farms that do say. |
| Prices | Firs and spruces start at $98 ($15 a foot, 6.5 foot minimum) and pines start at $52 ($8 a foot, 6.5 foot minimum). |
| Good to know | Santa and horse-drawn wagon rides are typically available from 10am to 3pm. |
| Address | 7719 Ryan Road, Harvard, IL 60033 |
Before you go
The questions farms get asked on the phone, answered from what this farm published itself. Anything it does not publish is left out rather than guessed.
- Do they lend you a saw?
- Saws provided "100% herbicide and pesticide-free . We provide the saws, the twine,"
- Is the hayride included?
- Hayride included "and free wagon rides into the fields, you just bring the family and dress for the weather."
- When do the hayrides run?
- "Santa and horse-drawn wagon rides typically available from 10 AM to 3 PM."
- What sort of hayride is it?
- horse-drawn "Santa and horse-drawn wagon rides typically available from 10 AM to 3 PM."
Verification
Last verified 2026-09-09 against these sources:
- il.foodmarketmaker.com · https://il.foodmarketmaker.com/business/bus-g_dYUxmDR
- il.foodmarketmaker.com · https://il.foodmarketmaker.com/
- usdalocalfoodportal.com · https://www.usdalocalfoodportal.com/fe/flisting?lid=10623&directory_type=agritourism
- usdalocalfoodportal.com · https://www.usdalocalfoodportal.com/fe/fdirectory_agritourism/
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