LIVING THE DREAM

OUR STORY

Back in 2007, my husband Alex and I were looking at rural blocks of land on the beautiful Atherton Tablelands for a future dream of owning a rural lifestyle block, not really knowing what we’d do with it. I’d always grown up with a real Christmas tree (in NZ) and really missed having one since living in North Qld, so we just connected the dots and thought, hey why not try growing some Christmas trees! With a lot of hard work and many years of experimenting with trees we were finally able to start selling trees to the public in 2012. From there our farming business just grew and grew into what it is today, and we are now supplying real Christmas trees throughout North Queensland and our beautiful new Red Barn Christmas Shop was opened in 2022 and is now the most majestic Christmas Shop in the North.

Every year we plant and grow thousands and thousands of beautiful Christmas trees from baby seedings right up to giant 15 foot high trees for hotels and resorts. We have more than ten thousand Christmas trees growing on our 30 acres of land in the beautiful rural area of Upper Barron which has rolling hills in all directions and a much cooler climate than our coastal neighbours, which is what allows us to grow the most beautiful Christmas trees right here in North Queensland. Alex prunes our trees several times per year, all by hand! Without meticulous pruning our trees would not have a lovely conical shape you see in our fields. Our Red Barn Christmas Shop is open all year round except for January and February when we can finally take a rest and enjoy some time with our 6 beautiful children. Our farm is truly a magical place to enjoy, in a unique and stunning part of the world.