The Rudy family of Dauphin, Pennsylvania began planting seedling evergreens in the spring  of 1979 at Jack and Jeanne Rudy's newly purchased thirty-three acre farm. Jack was a  painting contractor, living in the same small town that he grew up in, but he always wanted to own a farm.  At age 50, after thirty years of marriage and sending five children off to college, his dream began to come true. Soon after the purchase of the farm, he began to rebuild the stone walls of the old bank barn, and plant apple trees, chestnut trees, and berry bushes. 

When Spring came, Jack surprised his family with a shipment of one thousand baby Christmas trees. It took an entire week to plant all of them by hand. Springtime at the tree farm has not been the same since then! Forty-three years later, more than twenty thousand trees have been planted and Rudy's Christmas Tree Farm continues to thrive in scenic Perry County, PA! Our fields of trees are beautiful to walk through, fragrant to smell, and perfectly shaped by hand to grace your home at the holidays. 

For a few weeks each year, the tool and sawdust filled lower level of the barn is transformed into a glowing, holiday wonderland! Jams from Rudy gardens, apple products, wreaths, syrups, honey, candles, Christmas decorations and ornaments fill the barn's nooks and crannies. Jack, even at 93 in 2021, still ordered hundreds of seedling trees to plant in the Spring. He tended each individual tree, by hand, for at least a decade, until it grew tall enough to make a perfect Christmas tree. Jack passed away in December of 2021 after an active, long life devoted to community service, growing edibles and trees, and family. 

For decades, Jack made jams, jelly, apple butter and apple cider in the Fall. Most any day of the year, you could find him tooling about the farm on his old 1950's Ford tractor, mowing the rows, watering baby evergreens, cutting firewood and tending to the nut trees, fruit trees and evergreens. Rudy daughters, Donna and Debby helped him with farm chores, created and ran the Barn Shop each year, and made wreaths and unique items to sell in the holiday craft barn. 

New Owners: In the Spring of 2022, Jack's daughter, Donna Rudy Hudson and son Randy Rudy purchased the tree farm from their father's estate. They, along with their spouses, will continue father Jack's lifetime work of planting and harvesting the products of his Sugar Maples, Apples, Chestnut and Christmas trees along with the daily tasks of running the tree farm.  Christmas Tree seedlings will no longer be planted each spring, but thousands of planted Christmas trees will continue to be grown, trimmed and sold each Nov/Dec. 

The Chestnuts, Honey, Apples, and new for 2024 Wildflower gardens will continue to expand in production.

Daughter Donna, who lives at the farm, picks apples and chestnuts, mows the orchard, tends four beehives, has taken over the summer tree trimming tasks and much more. Son Randy, who designed and led the barn reconstruction also designed and welded up a steel maple sap boiler. He fixes broken equipment and tools, tends the fruit and nut trees, picks and processes the chestnuts, grows chestnut trees from seed, mows, plants cover crops, cuts and hauls trees. Donna and Randy tap the sugar maple trees, walnuts and sycamores each February, collecting sap to boil down into syrup. 

Family is important to the Rudy's. Making the Christmas Tree Farm a warm and welcoming environment for all the families who visit brings great joy to us. We look forward to greeting old friends and meeting new ones, as you visit the farm to find your Christmas tree and shop for handcrafted treasures in our Christmas shop. 

Rudy's Tree Farm is located 7 miles west of Duncannon on Route 849/Newport Road at the intersection of Narrow(s) Road. 

Tree Farm Address: 3 Narrows Road (off Rt 849/Newport Rd at the intersection of Narrows Rd), New Bloomfield, PA

Cell: 717-580-7572 

Driving directions and a link to a Google map can be found on our Directions page. 

Mailing Address: Rudy's Tree Farm, 3 Narrows Road, New Bloomfield, PA 17068