Sources genuinely disagree on whether this Natchez-area farm is currently operating after a reported tree-disease outbreak, so confirming it's actually open should come before anything else in your planning.
Green Hills Christmas Tree Farm, LLC, run by Brent and Blase Gaude on Highway 61 South near Natchez, presents a genuinely unusual research problem: the sources checked directly contradict each other about whether the farm is currently operating at all.
One source — pickyourownchristmastree.org, in its most recent update reflecting the 2025 season — stated the farm was “closed indefinitely” after a tree disease affected a large part of its crop, with the owners hoping to reopen at some point. A separate source — mschristmastrees.com/locations, the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce’s official current tree-farm list, along with a November 2025 WJTV news roundup drawing on that same official list — both continue to list Green Hills without any closure note at all. Notably, that same official list does explicitly flag a different farm, Morgan Hills Christmas Trees, as closed-then-reopening, which suggests the list’s maintainers do track and note closures when they’re aware of them. The fact that Green Hills carries no such flag on the official list could mean the farm has reopened, or it could mean the official list simply hasn’t been updated to reflect a closure the other source is aware of.
Rather than drop the listing entirely or silently pick one source over the other, the honest approach is to include the farm with the conflict clearly flagged, since the official state list is generally the more current and authoritative source for a business’s basic existence, but genuine uncertainty remains. That means this farm should be treated as lower-confidence than any other listing in this research batch — not because the underlying business information is necessarily wrong, but because whether there’s an operating farm to visit at all in 2026 is an open question.
Given the specific and serious nature of the conflict — a reported disease outbreak that damaged a large part of the crop, not just a vague “may have closed” rumor — calling 601-597-1953 before making any other plans is the only responsible next step. Don’t build a day trip around this farm without that call, and have a backup Natchez-area option in mind in case the closure report turns out to be current.
Beyond the open-status question, no hours, pricing, tree species, or amenities were found in any source for this farm, so even if it is open, there’s little else here to plan a visit around beyond the address and phone number.
The honest bottom line: Green Hills may well be back open and simply under-flagged on one list, or it may still be recovering from a real crop disease outbreak — there’s no way to know without calling first, and this listing should be treated as the least certain in this entire batch.
Not stated in any source checked — no hours or days-open information were found at all.
Not stated in the record, and with the farm's operating status itself in question, there's no honest basis to estimate a visit length.
Not stated in the record.
Not described in the record.
Not addressed in any source checked.
Skip Green Hills — or at minimum, call before you plan around it — since one source describes it as closed indefinitely after a tree-disease outbreak, while a separate, seemingly more current official state list shows no closure note; that direct conflict makes this one of the lowest-confidence listings in this batch.
Not available in the record checked.
This is genuinely uncertain. One source (reflecting the 2025 season) described the farm as closed indefinitely after a tree disease damaged a significant part of the crop, hoping to reopen at some point. A separate, seemingly more current official Mississippi Department of Agriculture list, along with a November 2025 news roundup sourced from it, both still list the farm without any closure note. Call 601-597-1953 to confirm before planning a visit.
A tree disease outbreak reportedly affected a large part of the farm's crop, according to the source describing the closure.
None of this was found in any source checked, independent of the open-status question.
Brent and Blase Gaude, on Highway 61 South near Natchez, per the research notes.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own.
561 Highway 61 South, Natchez, MS 39120, in Adams County. It is one of 8 farms we track in Southwest MS.
We track 8 farms in Southwest 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.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 8 farms we track in Southwest MS had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There is 1 other farm we track in Adams County. All Southwest MS farms →
pickyourownchristmastree.org · mschristmastrees.com
Checked September 2026.