NC Farm Provides White House Christmas Tree

The 2023 White House Christmas Tree was presented by Cline Church Nursery, a member of Blue Ridge Energy.

For the second year in a row and the 16th time since the tradition began, a North Carolinian will be headed to the White House for the holiday season: “Tree-mendous,” a 20-foot Fraser fir from Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm in Avery County. The tree will be decorated and on display in the Blue Room of the White House.

Cartner Christmas Tree Farm, served by Tennessee-based Mountain Electric Cooperative, was selected to provide the tree by the National Christmas Tree Association, and has been growing Fraser fir Christmas trees for wholesale and choose-and-cut customers since 1959. The farm was founded by the late Margaret and Sam Cartner, who was instrumental in organizing the NC Christmas Tree Growers Association, and is now managed by their sons, David, Jim and Sam Jr.

“We are honored to have the opportunity to represent the Christmas tree growers of America, by continuing the tradition of providing a farm-grown Christmas tree to the White House Blue Room, which will be viewed by millions of people,” Sam Cartner Jr. said.

The Cartner’s farm, along with other tree farms across Western North Carolina, lost thousands of trees during Tropical Storm Helene. Visit ncchristmastrees.com to search for and support NC choose-and-cut tree farms.