Thanks for a great season - CLOSING til next Christmas!

 Thanks to all our great new and returning customers.  We appreciate your support and willingness to follow our Covid precautions.  We had a great season and are now closed for this year.  

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  Stay positive, stay safe and together we will all get through this incredible pandemic.  

Erickson Bros Tree Farm staff - Marilyn, Paul, Steve, Ralph, Melissa, Sam and Auggie!

The Tomten are waiting to greet you!

New This Year - In response to the Covid Pandemic, we have converted (with help from the Swedish Tomten) our garden shed to an outdoor pay station.

Our customers will have the opportunity and option to cut their own tree or get a precut tree and pay all in the outdoors!

Opening day is Friday, November 27 - 9am to 6pm.

Check  below for additional details...

New COVID SAFE Tree Sales for 2020 

We want to let all our customers know what we will be doing to keep them and our staff safe during the 2020 Christmas tree season.  We will have:

    * Outdoor pay station - minimum contact

    *All staff wearing masks

    *Masks required in the precut tree lot

    *Saws, sleds and carts will be sanitized between uses

    *MASKS REQUIRED INDOORS

    *Indoor area LIMITED TO 5 PEOPLE OR 1 FAMILY GROUP

                               FOR 15 MINUTE LIMIT

    *No indoor bathrooms available - Port-a-potty available outside

    *No cider, coffee, hot chocolate, cookies or candy canes available this year

    *Please maintain 6' Social Distancing when outdoors and indoors 

2020 HOURS

Erickson Bros Tree Farm will be open beginning Friday, Nov. 27 from 9am - 6pm.  

We will be open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Nov.27 to Dec. 24.

We encourage people to visit on Thursdays and Fridays to avoid weekend crowds if you can.  Please contact us directly at 651-465-3039 if you have questions about our schedule.  Leave a message and we will return your call.

2018 Christmas Season in Pictures!

We've had a great year seeing lots of old friends and meeting new ones.  Here's some photos from our past season - Merry Christmas to you all!

Santa is coming to Erickson Bros Saturday, Dec. 1 Noon-2pm and Saturday, Dec. 8 Noon-2pm

Santa will be stopping by Erickson Bros. Tree Farm again this year.  He will arrive on Saturday, Dec. 1 at noon and can stay til 2pm.  He is available in our photo booth for pictures with children of all ages!!  This is a busy time for him, but he will also be back on Saturday, Dec. 8 from noon-2pm.  We hope you can stop by and have your photo taken with Santa!

Opening Day - Friday, November 23, 2018!

Erickson Bros Tree Farm will be open for the 2018 season on Friday, November 23 at 9am.  We are looking forward to greeting our wonderful returning customers and meeting new families as well!  Our photo booths are great for family photos.  We hope Santa will make a stop again this year - watch this site for dates!

Our holiday hours are 9am to 6pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday from the day after Thanksgiving until Dec. 24.  Please note:  Precut trees only after dark.  We offer a variety of precut trees as well as cut your own trees in our fields.  Our staff will shake your tree and help to tie it onto your vehicle.

                                                  

After you've picked out your tree, stop inside for some complimentary hot cider or hot chocolate and gingersnaps.  Kids of all ages enjoy watching our 2 large model train layouts.  And of course there is our Train Search - children love the challenge of finding all the items on the train layout!

You will also find a great selection of wreaths and outdoor planters to decorate your home.  If you have a pot or planter you would like an arrangement for, you may contact Melissa at 651-503-3940 to discuss your request and arrange to meet.

                           Our sales room has a variety of gift items, ornaments and lights.  We look forward to seeing you soon!

Grape Harvest time at Erickson Bros Vineyard!!

It's time to pick those grapes!!

Yes, it's grape harvest time again at Erickson Bros Tree Farm and Vineyard. We will begin picking grapes on Friday, Sept. 7 and will be picking almost every weekend until the beginning of October.  We are always looking for volunteers to help with the harvest.  It's a great way to spend a morning or afternoon in the fall.  We will feed you lunch and send you home with a bottle of wine from Wild Mountain Winery, the local winery where our grapes go to be made into wine.  Here's what the daily picking schedule looks like:

9-11:30 - Picking grapes
11:30-12:30 - Lunch
12:30-3:30 - Picking grapes

We will be picking the following weekends:
Sept. 8 & 9
Sept. 15 & 16
Sept. 22 & 23
Sunday, Sept. 30
Oct. 6 & 7
Oct. 13 & 14 - if needed

We are also doing something special on Saturday, Sept. 15 - This will be our "Picking and Biking Saturday."

Here's the schedule for Saturday, Sept. 15
9-11:30 - Picking grapes
11:30-12:30 - Lunch
12:30 - 3:30 - Picking grapes
3:00-4:30 - Biking to Wild Mountain Winery - this is an 11 to 15 mile bike ride
4:30-6:00 - Wine and food

We will arrange a shuttle back to Erickson Bros from the Winery.

Here is a link to our address in Google Maps.  Copy and paste this into your browser to see where we are. 
https://goo.gl/maps/vDViDL6YpPx

We'd love to see you at our vineyard - please email us at mlpderickson@comcast.net if you are interested in helping.  We need to know how many people to plan on for lunch each weekend.
Thanks and hope to see you at the vineyard!