Growing Christmas Trees (and Traditions) For Over 50 Years with Sheldon Corsi—2nd Generation Christmas Tree Farmer

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Corsi Tree Farm is Cincinnati's largest and longest-running Christmas tree farm, covering over 100 acres of evergreens in a variety of types and sizes. The man behind it all, Sheldon Corsi, is humble and hard-working, investing 7-10 years of labor into a tree that might spend 30 days at the center of your Christmas celebrations. Learning the tricks of the trade from his father, he’s been growing trees and creating holiday traditions for over 50 years. In this conversation, he talks about everything from taking over the family business, learning how to hand shear trees, to secrets that will keep your tree lasting through the holiday and beyond. He’s a good and aggressive man who will change the way you think about your own holiday traditions.

Find out more about Corsi Tree Farm here.

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0:00.0	When I was about, oh, I don't know, 14 or 15, dad taught me to use a sharing knife.
0:06.5	And it's just basically, it's a big, long, lightweight knife, and you swing it down the side of the tree to shear them.
0:13.5	So I've basically been knife sharing for over 50 years, and I still do it.
0:17.3	And I would dare say there's probably nobody else in the world that for whatever
0:21.9	that's worth, knife sharing Christmas trees, I've probably been doing it longer. That knife must be
0:27.1	brutal sharp. I sharpen it every day. I've seen some really bad cuts from those knives. I mean,
0:33.9	if you cut yourself, it's usually going to require, it's always going to require
0:38.5	stitches and a lot of times tendon repair, you know, so, so yeah, you got to, and I've never
0:44.5	fortunately.
0:45.2	Nothing since very Christmas like tendon repair.
1:07.1	Yeah. Welcome to the aggressive life.
1:10.3	We're less than a week away from Christmas,
1:14.9	and I tell you one thing, the hardest working guy in this season isn't wearing fuzzy red jumpsuit. It's not
1:18.9	even the guy who is doing last minute Christmas shopping. It's
1:24.7	not even the woman who's just doing all of her baking. The hardest
1:28.8	working guy is probably my guest today. Corsi tree farm is Cincinnati's largest and long and
1:36.5	running Christmas tree farm spanning over 100 acres of of U-cut evergreens and a variety of types and sizes.
1:44.6	It started over 50 years ago.
1:46.8	And as a business venture between Lou Corsey and his father-in-law,
1:50.5	they had 20 acres of Scotch Pines.
1:52.8	They were growing wholesale, but friends and family kept showing up to cut their own.
1:57.8	Adding acreage and a variety of evergreen trees,
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