MACON, Ga. — With Thanksgiving two days away, Skipper Family Farms in Macon is already looking ahead to December, welcoming families to select and cut their own Christmas trees.

Neil Skipper, whose great-grandfather purchased the farm in 1912, has transformed the family's agricultural legacy into a holiday destination. What began as a cotton, produce, wheat and corn operation now focuses on pecans, hay and Christmas trees. He says they started planting Christmas trees four years ago. He says it's been very fun.

"Getting into it and not really knowing anything about it, but I knew how to farm, it was kind of scary," Skipper said.

Despite initial uncertainty, tree farming has become one of the farm's biggest revenue sources and Skipper's most fulfilling venture.

"It is probably the mos

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