The first year selling trees didn\u2019t go as planned for one North Texas man.<\/p>\n
Tim Miller, co-owner of Hidden Honey Farm in Midlothian, still had more than half of his inventory earlier this week. But he made the best of a tough situation.<\/p>\n
One after another, families kept Miller busy picking, preparing and packing up trees\u2014 just in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n
All of a sudden, trees were flying off the lot. But that wasn\u2019t the case just days before.<\/p>\n
With more than 100 Douglas firs still standing, Miller said sales had come to a grinding halt.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour days straight with no one,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n
With Christmas quickly approaching, he had a decision to make.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have two options: We’re going to have to dispose of 100 plus trees, or I can give them away and somebody will get some use out of them, so that’s what we decided to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Miller posted on Facebook: \u201cOur first year of selling Christmas trees didn’t go as well as we had hoped for… If anyone doesn’t have a tree, or knows of someone who needs a tree, they are free for the taking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Families who otherwise couldn’t afford a tree began showing up\u2014and word spread quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought, \u2018Hey, I wanted to get a Christmas tree for our house anyway. Let\u2019s go get one!’\u201d said Miriam Beachy, holding her 1-year-old son Jeremiah.<\/p>\n
Miller said the response was overwhelming, with donations pouring in from across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll over! Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, California, somehow or another, people have seen our post and said, you know, we’d like to help,\u201d he said. \u201cI had no idea we would get the results that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n
In just two days, all 120 trees found their \u201cfir\u201d-ever homes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really felt like a gift,\u201d Beachy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe appreciation that they have, and I know there’s results I\u2019ll never know of,\u201d Miller added.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s still deciding whether to sell trees again next Christmas, but said after the feedback and support he\u2019s received, he\u2019s leaning toward it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first year selling trees didn\u2019t go as planned for one North Texas man. Tim Miller, co-owner of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7748,34560,430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-93749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-trees","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}