Allen Parish Christmas Tree Farm Spends Weeks Standing Up Thousands of Trees Knocked Over by Laura
By Rachael Penton
KALB-TV 5
The sounds leading up to this holiday season sound a lot different this year at Grant Christmas Tree Farm in Allen Parish, as the owners are working day-after-day with hammers in-hand. That’s because Hurricane Laura’s wrath knocked over just about every one of Gray and Mollie Anderson’s 10,000 Leland cypress trees.
“Every tree you see in this frame was flat, laying on the ground, from little to big,” says Mollie Anderson. “We weren’t looking at one year of damage. We were looking at six years of damage,” adds Gray Anderson.