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Family’s ‘side project’ turns into booming Christmas tree farm

Andy Kinsey, pictured on Friday, is a second-generation farmer at the Kinsey Family Farm on Jot Em Down Road. The farm started out raising livestock, but Christmas trees, fall pumpkins and family fun has become an ever-bigger part of the family business. - photo by Nick Bowman

12102017 CHRISTMAS 1.jpg — Andy Kinsey, pictured on Friday, is a second-generation farmer at the Kinsey Family Farm on Jot Em Down Road. The farm started out raising livestock, but Christmas trees, fall pumpkins and family fun has become an ever-bigger part of the family business. - photo by Nick Bowman

The 50-acre farm in the northeast corner of Forsyth County — despite its Gainesville address — sandwiched between Hall and Dawson counties is one of North Georgia’s most popular sources of living Christmas trees, selling thousands of trees between the few days at the end of November and Dec. 20.