Take a beautiful trip to the coast and visit our family farm, located along Highway One between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz.
For over 55 years, family and friends have made Rancho Siempre Verde a lively and festive place to enjoy Christmas.
RSV offers you a relaxing rural farm experience where you can slow down, be outside, and savor this family tradition.
Make a day of your visit to the farm—bring your family, friends, dogs, and good cheer!
• Make a beautiful wreath
• Hop aboard a tractor ride
• Swing on the big swings and ride the tube slide
• Roast marshmallows
• Have a picnic
• Find the perfect tree
Our festival is all about wide-open spaces, fresh air, and quality time together. With no crowded amusement-park vibes, just a rural family farm in a picturesque setting, where you and your kids can chill in a hammock or run and play in our sprawling fields, soar on giant swings, zoom down our big slide, and hop aboard tractor rides for a farm adventure.
Families can bond over hands-on activities like choosing or cutting your favorite Christmas tree and crafting a one-of-a-kind winter wreath with farm grown materials or roasting marshmallows. Bring your furry friends too—our dog-friendly farm welcomes everyone to share in the joy!
Wreath-Making
Wreath-making is a popular, fun family project, and we encourage you to discover your inner artist and wreath-making talents. We provide a variety of fresh farm greens and botanicals, pine cones, rings, clippers, and guidance from our resident wreath makers. You can bring your own materials if you want to add some favorite flowers or special botanical accents to your wreath. We have specially equipped tables that make wreath assembly easy.
About Our Christmas Trees
At RSV we grow a variety of cut your own christmas trees including: Douglas Fir, Monterey Pine, Sequoia, Incense Cedar, Arizona and Leyland Cypress.
We'll also have some precut Noble Firs and Nordmann Fir for sale to augment our home grown trees stocks so that we can continue to provide you with the highest quality and greatest diversity of trees. These precut trees are from another family tree farm and one of the most trusted sources in Oregon, where these trees flourish, and will be freshly cut and placed in water immediately upon their arrival.
As always you can choose and cut from the regular stock of trees at our farm or you can choose one of these precut trees. Either way we guarantee you will be getting a real, fresh and beautiful tree to bring into your home.
Christmas Tree Care
Because all of our trees are fresh, they will last longer than precut ones bought on a lot. They will, however, stay even fresher if you re-cut the base and place it in water when you get home. If possible, keep the tree outside in an open but shaded area and spray it with a hose daily until you are ready to decorate it.
Cutting a Christmas Tree
Unlike trees bought at a tree lot, all of our trees are coppiced or stump cultured. This means that by leaving a few bottom branches on the tree, you make it possible for another tree to grow from the same stump. This way the tree continues to live and flourish year after year. If you look at the base of most of our older trees, you can find many trees that have been cut from the same stump. So please leave bottom branches to keep the trees living. We supply the saws and are more than happy to help if assistance is needed.
Why a Real Tree?
It seems that the battle between real and artificial Christmas trees is almost as old as the tradition itself. The debate started with the first artificial trees that were in fact invented in the 1930s by a toilet bowl brush company.
*Dates and times are rain or shine, unless there are severe storm warnings.
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