M&D Trees (Mondell Pine Farm)

Our take

M&D Trees, also known locally as Mondell Pine Farm, is a family-owned operation that has been growing trees in Kingman’s high desert for more than 50 years, alongside fruit, nut, and shade trees it sells year-round. What sets it apart from most of the farms in this research isn’t marketing language but a horticultural fact: at roughly 3,300 feet elevation with Mohave County’s dry climate, true firs don’t grow here, but the drought-tolerant Mondell pine (also called Afghan pine) does. That’s the entire tree selection on offer, and it’s also the reason this farm can run a real cut-your-own field at all in a state where most “tree farms” are actually reselling trucked-in fir from Oregon.

What cut-your-own actually means here

Both cut_your_own and choose_and_cut are confirmed true in the record, and the research notes go further: this is described as the only farm found in this research where visitors walk rows of standing, living trees and cut their own, matching independent trade-directory descriptions of it as Arizona’s sole standing commercial u-cut operation since the late 2010s. If you’ve done a cut-your-own visit in a fir-growing state and assumed Arizona doesn’t have an equivalent, this is the exception. Bring the expectations that come with that: walking a working field, likely uneven or dusty ground, and a saw you may need to supply yourself since saw_provided is left null in the record rather than confirmed either way.

The schedule is not daily

The farm’s 2025 season centered on a specifically promoted cut-your-own weekend, November 29-30, which reads as the main event rather than a footnote. Outside that weekend, the regular season ran just four days a week — Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday — through December 24, with hours of 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. That’s a real planning constraint: this isn’t a farm you can swing by on a random Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon. If the 2026 season follows the same pattern (not confirmed), building a trip around either the opening weekend or one of the four open days matters more here than at farms open daily.

The money math

Pricing in the 2025 season was $40-$50 per tree, flat rate — the record is explicit that this is not a per-foot charge. That’s useful to know before you start walking rows: a taller or fuller tree within the farm’s Mondell pine selection doesn’t cost proportionally more the way it might somewhere billing by the foot. Beyond the tree itself, the record lists a hayride, face painting, a bounce house, food trucks, and photos with Santa as on-site activities, all of which read as separate small purchases or free extras rather than being priced in the record — expect those costs, if any, to be handled on site. Both cash and card are accepted, so there’s no cash-only surprise waiting at checkout.

What’s confirmed and what isn’t

The source material here is unusually clear about its own limits: dates and prices are explicitly 2025-season figures, and no 2026 information had posted at the time of this research, so the November cut-your-own weekend and December 24 close should be treated as last year’s pattern rather than this year’s confirmed plan. Saw availability is also genuinely unknown rather than a research gap that could be reasonably inferred. Given that this farm is roughly an hour and a half from the Phoenix metro and offers something no other farm in this dataset does, calling (928) 692-6394 to confirm the current season before making the drive is worth the two minutes it takes.