Judy Tree Farm

Our take

Judy Tree Farm is family-operated by Kenny and Jennifer Gulley near Mt. Sterling, and the record includes one genuinely unusual honesty problem worth explaining plainly rather than glossing over: the available description of the farm contradicts itself about how the trees are actually sold.

The contradiction, stated directly

The source material describes “pre-cut trees available” in one place, but also states that saws will be provided for cutting in another. Those two claims don’t sit comfortably together — a farm is either selling trees that are already cut when you arrive, or it’s a choose-and-cut operation where you do the cutting yourself with a provided saw, or possibly it offers a mix of both. Rather than guess which interpretation is correct, all three cutting-method fields in the underlying record were left unresolved, because inventing an answer here would be worse than admitting the source wasn’t clear. If knowing whether you’ll be doing the cutting yourself matters to your visit — and for many families it does, since it changes what you wear and how much time you budget — this is the one thing worth confirming directly with the farm before you go, either by phone (859-585-6637) or by checking judytreefarm.com.

What is clear: the species and the amenities

Less ambiguous is the tree itself: Fraser fir, a species widely known for holding its needles longer than some alternatives — a general fact about the species, not a specific claim about this farm’s trees. The farm also offers on-site restrooms, which is worth calling out because it’s not something every smaller farm in this batch documents, and tree baling to make transport easier regardless of who did the cutting.

The season shifts as it goes

Judy Tree Farm opens on Black Friday, which for 2026 lands on November 27. Beyond that start date, the hours are described as shifting later in the season depending on how much stock remains — a detail that’s honest about a real dynamic at cut-your-own and pre-cut lots alike: inventory management affects hours as much as a fixed calendar does. No closing date is documented, so if you want the widest selection, earlier in the run is the safer bet, consistent with how popular cut-your-own farms across this whole batch tend to thin out by mid-December even when they technically remain open.

The bottom line

This is a real, family-run farm with a straightforward species offering and a genuinely useful amenity in on-site restrooms, but it’s also one of the clearer examples in this batch of why checking directly with a farm beats trusting an aggregated description — the cutting-method question here isn’t a minor gap, it’s a real point of confusion worth resolving before you build a visit around an assumption.