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Daryl Quitalig - For Shaw Media
Kevin Howenstine (far right), a third-generation worker on the farm, assists Gillian Bass, 8, Elizabeth Bass, and Rosie Thompson, 6, bail their tree while grandma Marianne Bass, all of Wonder Lake, watch at Pioneer Tree Farm, 4614 Pioneer Road, McHenry, Ill. Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. Pioneer Tree Farm has been selling cut-your-own Christmas trees since 1973 and has a variety of pines, spruces, cedars, and firs to choose from. Their trees are organically grown and pruned by hand and 10 percent of tree sales is donated to the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County.