We open for the 2020 season on Friday, November 27th, 2020!

Due to COVID-19:
To provide a safe and healthy environment for everyone...
  •  Masks or face coverings are required at the farm. Gloves are also encouraged.
  • Saws will be available for customers to borrow, and they will be sanitized between uses.
  • We encourage you to bring your own sleds and wagons.
  • Practice 6-foot social distancing. Families and Groups MUST stay together!
  • Customers should not come to the farm if they are displaying symptoms (e.g. fever, coughing), or have come in contact with someone who has. 
  • Let's all have a healthy holiday season!

Saltsman Tree Farm has been operating in Rhinebeck for over thirty years, and we believe the yearly tradition of picking out a tree should be as special as your celebration of the season itself.

​We look forward to welcoming you to our farm!

Sincerely, 
The Saltsman-Tiberio Family

LOCATION

214 Route 308
Rhinebeck, NY 12572

We are located one mile east of the traffic light in the Village of Rhinebeck, and are convenient to the city via the Taconic Parkway.

​You can reach us during the tree season at the farm number, which is 
​845-876-8801. 

2020 HOURS

Saturday & Sunday (beginning the weekend after Thanksgiving)
9am - 4:30pm
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*Please plan to arrive by 4pm in order to give yourself ample time to choose a tree prior to our closing at 4:30. We don't want you stuck out in the fields as it gets dark early this time of year. Thank you for your understanding.

Tuesday - Friday
​1pm – 4pm

​Closed Mondays

Please  note that once we sell out of trees, we will close for the season. 

If you visit  during the week, you may be responsible for securing your own tree to your car.

AT-A-GLANCE

  • Pre-Cut: Fraser Fir, Balsam Fir, Canaan Fir, Concolor Fir, Douglas Fir 
  • Choose & Cut:  UPDATE: Due to early demand for trees this year, our U-cut fields are temporarily closed, but we will be opening a new field for cutting on Sat. 12/5/2020.  U-Cut Fraser Fir is now closed for the 2020 season. Blue Spruce, White Spruce, Fraser Fir
  • This year (2020) trees range in height from 5 feet to 12 feet. 
  • We occasionally have larger trees, but they tend to sell out quickly
  • We provide saws
  • On weekends we will bale your tree and secure it to your car free of charge - (weekends only)
  • Come for your tree, stay to enjoy our open barnyard bonfire (weekends only)
  • We accept cash and LOCAL checks only
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"My girlfriend had never cut down her own tree before this past weekend, and Saltsman Christmas Tree Farm was the PERFECT place to experience this beautiful holiday tradition.

The staff was so genuine and helpful, and the trees were so beautiful and strong! After we cut down our tree, we enjoyed cider and doughnuts next to a crackling fire, over which we later roasted chestnuts - all of this while the staff loaded the tree on the car for us!

As long as we live in New York, this is where we'll get our trees. Thank you, Saltsman staff for making this experience magical for the both of us : )"   - Eric French, December 2013

Saltsman Tree Farm was featured by Time Warner Cable News.


​RHINEBECK, N.Y. --- The holiday season is upon us and families are heading to their local farms to pick out Christmas trees. Tremper Saltsman of the Saltsman Christmas Tree Farm in Rhinebeck says the first few days after Thanksgiving are the busiest. 

​"I guess it's the Christmas spirit strikes early. There are many different opinion about that but every years it seems people do buy their trees earlier and earlier and earlier so whatever is good for them is good for us," Saltsman said.

He says the warm weather has not affected the trees on the 30 acre property but instead it's brought more people to the farm.

"We had a beautiful growing season it was just ideal, and as for as the warm weather with the public coming in like for example yesterday it was 65 and people really really enjoyed that and they were in here in mass," Saltsman said.

New customers like Andrew Ciavarelli are excited to start new traditions at Saltsman’s.

"This is actually the first time I ever cut down my own tree I grew up in the city and we decided to start a new tradition and cutting down our own tree. I came up with the idea and I knew my girlfriend would love it so we came up and did it," said new tree buyer Andrew Ciavarelli.

And 30 year veterans just love the atmosphere of picking out their own trees.

"Every Saturday after thanksgiving it’s a tradition,” said veteran tree buyer Tom Barton.

Saltsman’s harvests around 300 to 400 hundred trees a year and they tell customers that coming to the farm is more than just cutting down a tree.

"It’s all about the experience you know when you come we have the old barn. We’ve got the camp fire to roast chestnuts you get to walk through the fields cut down your tree you know it’s just a good family outing," said Kevin Tiberio.

Saltsman’s farm is open until the end of the Christmas season and Saltsman hopes the warm weather sticks around.