Do you buy your Christmas trees in New York? Chances are you’re buying from one of five families running the city’s Christmas tree trade, some of them for nearly half a century. This documentary studies the trunk and branches of a business that brightens thousands of homes each winter.
Here, the five businesses beat severe odds to keep their decades-old family tradition alive. They are Greg’s Trees run by Greg Walsh and his 6-foot-5-inch-tall son, “Little” Greg; Heather Neville’s NYC Tree Lady; NYC Tree Shop owned by George Smith; Uptown Christmas Trees run by Ciree Nash and founded by her parents, Jane Waterman and George Nash. Then there is lone-wolf tree tycoon Kevin Hammer, who appears as invisible in real life as he is in the documentary.
