{"id":56245,"date":"2022-12-02T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/?p=56245"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:57:32","slug":"cbs-news-real-or-artificial-which-christmas-tree-is-better-for-your-wallet-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/in-the-news\/cbs-news-real-or-artificial-which-christmas-tree-is-better-for-your-wallet-and-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"<span>CBS News<\/span> Real or artificial: Which Christmas tree is better for your wallet and the environment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Christmas trees \u2014 real and artificial \u2014 are increasing in price this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most wholesale growers say they have to charge up to 15% more. The average cost of a real tree was nearly $70 in 2021, according to the National Christmas Tree Association. This year, a real tree is expected to cost between $80 and $100, per the Real Christmas Tree Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abThere&#8217;s a lot of labor in a Christmas tree,\u00bb said Los Angeles Christmas tree lot owner Tina Callas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Callas said she is also seeing supply shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For artificial trees, high shipping fees from China are adding to the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/christmas-tree-real-artificial-which-is-better-price-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ FULL ARTICLE &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas trees \u2014 real and artificial \u2014 are increasing in price this year. Most wholesale growers say they have to charge up to 15% more. The average cost of a real tree was nearly $70 in 2021, according to the National Christmas Tree Association. This year, a real tree is expected to cost between $80 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-in-the-news","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61921,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56245\/revisions\/61921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}