A choose-and-cut farm paired with a genuinely distinctive Christmas shop full of model trains and decor, plus free hot chocolate and free netting, though no pricing for the trees themselves has been found anywhere.
Spence’s Tree Farm pairs a fairly standard choose-and-cut tree lot with something you won’t find at most farms in this guide: Rabbit’s Hollow, an on-site Christmas shop built around ornaments, decorations, and ready-to-run model train sets and accessories. If part of your holiday shopping list involves gifts beyond the tree itself, that’s a genuinely useful reason to choose this farm over a more bare-bones operation nearby.
Staff cuts the tree here once you’ve made your selection — this is choose-and-cut, not cut-your-own — from a solid six-species lineup: Douglas fir, Norway spruce, blue spruce, white spruce, white pine, and red cedar. Living, balled trees are also available if you’d rather replant after the season than dispose of a cut tree. Advance tagging lets you reserve a specific tree ahead of the main cutting weekends, which is worth doing if you have a size or species in mind and want to avoid disappointment closer to the holidays.
Two small but real perks show up in the record: netting for the drive home is free, which some farms charge for separately, and hot chocolate and cookies are offered on site at no cost. Neither of those is a huge deal on its own, but together with the Christmas shop, they add up to a visit that’s meaningfully more than “pick a tree, pay, leave.”
For all the documented amenities, pricing is a complete blank. No starting price and no price note were found from any source — not the Delaware Dept. of Agriculture guide, not Visit Delaware or AARP listings, not the growers association page. That’s an unusual gap for a farm with this much else documented, and it means the one thing you can’t plan for in advance is the actual cost of the tree you’ll walk out with. A call to 302-335-4460 before you go is the only way to close that gap honestly.
The season is expected to open the Friday after Thanksgiving — Nov 27, 2026 — running weekends, 9am-5pm, through December. No documented end date exists, so if you’re eyeing a visit deep into December, it’s worth confirming the farm is still operating that weekend rather than assuming the season runs all the way to Christmas Eve the way some other Kent County farms explicitly do.
The season is expected to start Nov 27, 2026 (the Friday after Thanksgiving), running weekends through December, 9am-5pm. No end date is documented, so confirm how late the farm stays open if you're planning a December visit.
With a full Christmas shop to browse in addition to the tree fields, plus free hot chocolate and cookies to enjoy, this is a farm worth setting aside more than a quick stop for — likely 45 minutes to an hour or more.
Not documented directly, but a farm combining a Christmas shop with free refreshments and tree cutting tends to draw a broader family crowd than a tree-only lot, and weekends through the season concentrate that traffic into Saturdays and Sundays specifically.
Not documented in the record.
Not documented. Expect a mix of shop browsing on more even ground and field walking on grass or dirt for the tree selection itself.
Skip Spence's if pricing certainty matters most to you — no starting price or price note was found for this farm from any source, so you won't know the cost until you're there or you've called ahead.
Turning Pointe Farm in Hartly and Schreppler's Fir Tree Acres in Magnolia are also in Kent County, both worth comparing if you want a sense of the broader tree-species and amenity range around this part of Delaware.
Not documented. No pricing was found for this farm from any source; call 302-335-4460 to ask before you go.
It's the farm's on-site Christmas shop, specializing in ornaments, decorations, and ready-to-run model train sets and accessories — a distinctive draw if you're gift shopping beyond the tree itself.
Yes, living (balled) trees are available in addition to the standard choose-and-cut option where staff cuts your selected tree.
Douglas fir, Norway spruce, blue spruce, white spruce, white pine, and red cedar.
Opens November 27, 2026 (closing date not published). Weekends. Hours: 9am-5pm.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's choose-and-cut (staff cuts it for you).
19 Ruyter Drive, Frederica, DE 19946, in Kent County. It is one of 13 farms we track in Delaware.
We track 13 farms in Delaware, 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.
What sets it apart locally: it has a gift shop or farm market, free netting/baling, which most Delaware farms on our list do not.
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Checked September 2026.