Christmas trees are an agricultural crop, grown specifically on Florida farms and plantations to be harvested for use at Christmas. Trees are great benefactors of the land. They prevent soil erosion and provide scenic greenbelts throughout the state. Trees are nature's way of cleansing and purifying the air. Each acre of Christmas trees produces enough oxygen to meet the daily oxygen requirements of eighteen people.
Tree plantations provide important wildlife habitat and aquifer recharge areas.
Florida Christmas tree growers, as a rule of thumb, plant two or three trees for every tree cut.