{"id":3619,"date":"2022-11-28T05:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/11\/30\/christmas-trees-selling-quickly-ahead-of-holiday-season-drought-raises-concerns-over-future\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T05:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:18:33","slug":"christmas-trees-selling-quickly-ahead-of-holiday-season-drought-raises-concerns-over-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/11\/28\/christmas-trees-selling-quickly-ahead-of-holiday-season-drought-raises-concerns-over-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas trees selling quickly ahead of holiday season, drought raises concerns over future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Haubner<\/p>\n<p>November 28, 2022 \/ 6:42 PM \/ CBS Sacramento<\/p>\n<p>CAMINO \u2014 Christmas is coming early for Eli McGee and other tree farmers like Chad Ericson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a limited number of trees to sell,&#8221; said McGee, who co-owns a farm in the Apple Hill area of Placerville. &#8220;So we kinda have a quota and they go fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been swamped the last three years including this year,&#8221; Ericson, who owns a tree lot in West Sacramento, explained. &#8220;And it&#8217;s because people have been at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A business built on tradition weathered the storm of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve watched kids be raised from the time they came in as babies and now they&#8217;re 10-15 years old so it&#8217;s pretty cool,&#8221; says Ericson.<\/p>\n<p>But it now faces new challenges: wildfires on the one hand and drought on the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpss_copy\">Content retrieved from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/christmas-trees-selling-quickly-ahead-of-holiday-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/christmas-trees-selling-quickly-ahead-of-holiday-season\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Haubner November 28, 2022 \/ 6:42 PM \/ CBS Sacramento SACRAMENTO \u2014 Christmas is coming early for Eli McGee and other tree farmers like Chad Ericson. &#8220;We have a limited number of trees to sell,&#8221; said McGee, who co-owns a farm in the Apple Hill area of Placerville. &#8220;So we kinda have a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}