One of the longest-running farms in this research, operating since 1930, with free saws, staff tree-wrapping, and a simple ribbon-based way to tag a tree early — though no pricing is published.
Moffatt’s Tree Farm has operated as a wholesale and choose-and-cut grower since 1930, making it one of the longest-established farms in this Vermont research. It’s located about eight miles east of Route 15, near Morrisville, and keeps daily hours once the season opens — 9am to 4pm, closed Thanksgiving Day, and closing at noon on Christmas Eve rather than running a full day.
Two practical details stand out here. First, the farm provides plenty of saws free of charge, so there’s no need to bring or rent your own cutting equipment — and staff will wrap the tree for you afterward, making it easier to transport. Second, and more distinctive, the farm allows early-season visitors to pre-tag a specific tree by tying a ribbon marked with their name on it. That’s a low-tech but genuinely useful system if you’ve found the exact tree you want and don’t want to risk someone else cutting it before you return during the main season. Pre-cut trees are also available for anyone who’d rather skip the field entirely.
The farm lists a primary phone number (802-586-6900) that it prefers for cut-your-own questions, along with a separate, text-only number (802-730-6469). That’s a small but useful detail if you’re trying to reach the farm — a call is the better route for planning questions, while the second number appears set up specifically for texting rather than calls.
No tree pricing shows up anywhere in this record, despite the farm’s long history and clearly documented amenities. Balsam fir and Fraser fir are the two species grown and sold. Given how much operational detail is available here — free saws, wrapping service, the ribbon-tagging system, split contact numbers — the absence of pricing stands out as the one real information gap. If cost is a deciding factor between farms, a call to 802-586-6900 is worth making before you commit to a visit, since nothing published gives even a rough sense of what to expect to pay.
Craftsbury is known regionally for its outdoor-recreation community, and a farm that’s been growing trees in the area since 1930 has clearly outlasted plenty of shorter-lived operations nearby. That kind of longevity often comes with practical, well-worn systems — the ribbon-tagging method and the split phone/text contact numbers both read like solutions developed over decades of dealing with real visitor needs, rather than a newer farm’s first attempt at customer service. If you’re choosing between an established, nearly-century-old operation and a newer farm elsewhere in this research, that track record is a reasonable, if indirect, point in this farm’s favor, even without a published price to weigh against it directly.
No 2026 dates were published, but the farm keeps daily hours (9am-4pm) once open for the season, closed Thanksgiving and closing at noon on Christmas Eve. Tag a tree early in the season if you want to reserve a specific one.
About 30-45 minutes for cutting; a bit longer if you want staff to wrap the tree for easier transport.
Not documented, though daily hours should spread visitors more evenly than farms limited to a few days a week.
Not described in the record.
Not addressed in the source.
Skip a Thanksgiving Day visit — the farm is closed that day — and don't plan a full-day Christmas Eve trip, since the farm closes at noon that day.
This farm is in Craftsbury, Orleans County, about eight miles east of Route 15 near Morrisville; Paine's Christmas Trees in Morristown is the closest comparable option in this research batch.
Not published in the record. Call 802-586-6900 to ask about current rates.
Yes — visitors can pre-tag a tree early in the season by tying a ribbon marked with their name on it.
No, saws are provided free, and pre-cut trees are also available if you'd rather not cut one yourself.
There's a separate text-only number (802-730-6469), though the farm prefers a phone call (802-586-6900) for cut-your-own questions.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily (closed Thanksgiving, closes at noon Christmas Eve). Check with the farm before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own and choose-and-cut (staff cuts it for you), and a saw is provided.
1262 Wild Branch Road, Craftsbury, VT 05826, in Orleans County. It is one of 6 farms we track in Northeast Kingdom.
We track 6 farms in Northeast Kingdom, 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 6 farms we track in Northeast Kingdom had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 3 other farms we track in Orleans County. All Northeast Kingdom farms →
moffattstreefarm.com
Checked September 2026.