A genuinely bare-bones, one-person operation selling only Scotch pine, with conflicting opening-date information across sources, so calling ahead before visiting matters more here than almost anywhere else in this list.
Owner's Facebook description says 'any tree on the lot this year is one low price,' but no dollar figure was published in sources checked.
Hess Acres is the smallest, most stripped-down operation in this batch of Kansas farms, and it’s worth taking the owner at their word about what that means for a visit. Per their own listing, quoted directly in the research notes: “I have the saws, can net the tree, and have twine to secure on car… I am a one man operation so bear with me in peak times.” That’s an unusually candid, first-person description for a business listing, and it sets honest expectations — this isn’t a farm with a staff of ten running hayrides and a Santa photo booth. It’s one person managing a Scotch pine field, saws, netting, and twine, and asking customers for patience when it gets busy.
Only Scotch pine is grown and sold here, in both self-cut and staff-cut form, with saws provided either way. Once you’ve picked a tree, the owner nets it and provides twine to secure it for the drive home — a genuinely practical, confirmed service rather than something you’d need to arrange yourself. There’s no mention anywhere in the record of a gift shop, hayrides, hot cocoa, or any of the extras that show up at bigger farms in this same research batch. What you see is what you get: a field, a saw, and a tree.
The most significant honest gap here is the season calendar. Two different sources describe two different opening approaches — one says the farm opens December 1st, the other says it opens the Friday after Thanksgiving. Because this is a small, weekend-only operation (Saturday 10am-4:30pm, Sunday 1-4:30pm, until sold out, usually mid-December) and because December 1, 2026 falls on a Tuesday rather than a weekend, these two accounts genuinely don’t line up cleanly for 2026. Rather than guess, this listing leaves the season start date unresolved. If you’re planning a trip in that late-November-to-early-December window, calling (913) 484-5024 first isn’t optional caution — it’s the only way to know whether the farm is even open yet.
The owner’s own Facebook page reportedly describes pricing as “any tree on the lot this year is one low price,” which is a real, sourced quote — but it contains no actual dollar figure. Per the honesty rule this site holds to, that means no number, low or high, can be offered here even as a guess. What it does tell you is that pricing is simple and flat rather than scaled by size or species, which at least sets an expectation for how checkout will work, even without a number attached.
Hess Acres suits a visitor who wants the simplest possible version of a cut-your-own trip and doesn’t mind a no-frills, one-person operation. But the unresolved opening date and total absence of a published price mean this is not a farm to show up at cold — call first, especially if you’re aiming for early in the season.
Not confirmed. Sources disagree on whether the farm opens December 1st or the Friday after Thanksgiving, and because it's a one-person weekend-only operation, no specific 2026 opening weekend could be resolved with confidence.
Not stated in the record, but a one-man operation with no gift shop, hayrides, or Santa suggests a fast, no-frills visit rather than a half-day outing.
Not stated directly, but the owner's own description as a one-man operation who has asked customers to 'bear with him in peak times' is a direct signal that Saturday afternoons in particular could mean longer waits than at a farm with more staff.
Not described in the record.
Not addressed in the source.
Skip Hess Acres if you want any variety beyond Scotch pine, since that's the only species the record mentions, and skip it if you're not willing to call ahead first, since two conflicting opening dates (Dec 1 vs. the Friday after Thanksgiving) turned up in research and only weekend hours are offered.
No specific nearby-farm comparison is available in this record.
Scotch pine only, according to the record. Both self-cut (saws provided) and staff-cut versions are available.
Not published as a dollar figure. The owner's Facebook description says 'any tree on the lot this year is one low price,' but no specific number turned up in any source checked.
Unclear. Two conflicting dates appear across sources: one says December 1st, another says the Friday after Thanksgiving. Because December 1, 2026 falls on a Tuesday and the farm is weekend-only, the record could not confidently resolve which applies, so no season_start date is given here. Call ahead.
No. The record describes this explicitly as a one-man operation without a gift shop, hayrides, or Santa — a bare-bones experience focused purely on getting a tree.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Sat-Sun. Check with the farm before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked. Owner's Facebook description says 'any tree on the lot this year is one low price,' but no dollar figure was published in sources checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own and choose-and-cut (staff cuts it for you), and a saw is provided.
24250 W. 83rd Street, Lenexa, KS 66227, in Johnson County. It is one of 6 farms we track in Kansas City Region KS.
We track 6 farms in Kansas City Region KS, 5 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 free netting/baling, which most Kansas City Region KS farms on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 5 of the 6 farms we track in Kansas City Region KS had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
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Checked September 2026.