One of the largest, longest-running agritourism operations in this batch, with a real restaurant, petting zoo, and free hayrides to the tree fields, but no pricing figures were found anywhere and season-specific dates weren't confirmed for 2026.
Cedar Hill Farm in Hernando stands out in this batch as one of the largest and longest-running agritourism operations on the list. It isn’t just a Christmas tree lot with a few extras bolted on — it’s a full working farm with a farm-to-table restaurant, a petting zoo, pony rides, a playground, u-pick produce, honey and fresh eggs for sale, and a property that also hosts weddings, birthday parties, and school tours. The Christmas tree operation is one piece of a bigger, year-round business.
For the actual tree-cutting, the farm offers choose-and-cut Leyland cypress and Carolina Sapphire, and also brings in precut Fraser fir for visitors who specifically want a traditional fir rather than a warm-climate substitute. A saw is provided. Rather than requiring a long walk out to find your tree, the farm runs a free tractor-drawn hayride to the fields — a genuinely useful detail if you’re visiting with small kids or anyone who’d rather not hike a working farm’s acreage before even starting to look for a tree.
What sets Cedar Hill apart is the Country Kitchen restaurant, open for lunch during the season and for dinner Friday and Saturday nights year-round. Combined with the property’s use as a wedding and private-event venue, that points toward a visit with more moving parts — and likely more people — than a bare-bones cut-your-own operation. If a quiet, low-key tree pickup is what you want, the size and popularity implied by a working restaurant and event calendar suggest this may not be it, especially on a weekend evening when diners and event guests could be on the property alongside tree-cutting families.
One genuine advantage here: payment is accepted broadly — cash, check, debit, and all major cards, according to the record — unlike several smaller, cash-only farms elsewhere in this batch. What isn’t available anywhere is an actual price for a tree. No price_from or price_note exists in any source checked, so there’s no honest dollar figure to offer, regardless of how established or well-resourced the farm clearly is. If budget matters, that’s a call to 662-429-2540 before you go, not an assumption you can make from the farm’s evident scale.
A 2026-dated Tripadvisor aggregation lists the farm’s regular hours as Monday-Wednesday 9am-3pm, Thursday 9am-8pm, Friday 9am-9pm, Saturday 10am-9pm, and closed Sunday — but these appear to be the farm’s general hours rather than Christmas-tree-specific hours, which the record notes may differ. A separate web search turned up a specific date range, “Saturday Nov 21 - Saturday Dec 19,” for a recent season, but that doesn’t line up with 2026’s actual Thanksgiving date (November 26), so it should be treated as a prior-season data point rather than a confirmed 2026 schedule. The farm also states it minimizes pesticide and chemical use on its own site, a detail worth knowing if that matters to your family, though it isn’t independently verified beyond the farm’s own claim.
The honest bottom line: Cedar Hill Farm offers one of the fullest agritourism experiences in this research batch — a real restaurant, broad payment options, and a free hayride to the fields — but with no published tree pricing and Christmas-specific hours unconfirmed for 2026, a call ahead is worth making before you build a full day around it.
Regular farm hours (per a 2026-dated Tripadvisor listing) run Mon-Wed 9am-3pm, Thu 9am-8pm, Fri 9am-9pm, Sat 10am-9pm, closed Sunday — but Christmas-tree-specific hours may differ, so confirm with the farm. A weekday visit before the evening crowd should be quieter than a Friday or Saturday night, when the restaurant and grounds also draw diners and event guests.
With a full restaurant, gift shop, playground, petting zoo, pony rides, and u-pick produce alongside the tree-cutting, this is realistically a multi-hour outing rather than a quick tree pickup.
Not stated directly, but the farm's restaurant is also rented out for weddings and private events, and it runs a wide roster of family activities — that combination suggests heavier weekend traffic and parking demand than at smaller, simpler operations on this list.
Not described in the record.
Not addressed in any source checked.
Skip Cedar Hill Farm if you want a quiet, low-traffic visit, since the restaurant, event bookings, and full activity roster likely mean heavier weekend crowds and parking than at smaller cut-your-own lots, and skip it if you need a confirmed 2026 price before you go, since none was found in any source.
Not available in the record checked.
No pricing information was found in any source checked. Call 662-429-2540 to confirm before you go.
Yes — Cedar Hill Farm's Country Kitchen serves lunch during the season and dinner on Friday and Saturday year-round, per the record.
Leyland cypress and Carolina Sapphire for cut-your-own, plus precut Fraser fir for buyers who want a traditional fir.
A free tractor-drawn hayride carries visitors out to the fields, so you don't need to walk the whole property to reach the trees.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Seasonal, roughly Friday after Thanksgiving through mid-late December. Check with the farm before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own, and a saw is provided.
8 Love Road, Hernando, MS 38632, in De Soto County. It is one of 7 farms we track in North MS.
We track 7 farms in North MS, 6 of which let you cut your own tree. The farm has not published a starting price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
What sets it apart locally: it has a hayride or sleigh ride, a gift shop or farm market, a petting area, which most North MS farms on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 7 farms we track in North MS had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
gocedarhillfarm.com · pickyourownchristmastree.org · mschristmastrees.com
Checked September 2026.