The Traverse City Record-Eagle has a feature on Jim Grant, a Leelanau County cherry and tree farmer who travels the world looking for perfect evergreen trees for northern Michigan. Gant works with almost 30 different tree varieties at his farm. The article gives an idea of what it's like to be in the Christmas tree business and looks at some of the exotic varieties Gant grows including Olympic fir and Equi-trojani from Turkey and Greece and Veitch and Nikko firs from Japan. Exotic trees typically sell for the same price as a high-end trees such as a Fraser fir.

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