With Christmas a little more than a month away, the shortest season of all seasonal work is well underway, but tree growers say they've got a labour shortage.
Like other seasonal businesses, growers say it's getting harder to find young people to cut, bale, and carry trees to market.
It is considered hard work, but growers suspect the bigger problem is that many young people have left for jobs out west.
“I tried to get someone in the Havelock area or Petticodiac, but I couldn't get no one,” says tree grower, Arnold Perry. “I got someone from Moncton and Hillsborough.”
Although there seems to be a shortage of seasonal workers, some still elect to stay close to home instead of going elsewhere for work.
"I find you can make enough money here, if you work hard and stuff, and then you get to see the family a little more,” says Mark Johnson.
The Christmas tree business is a big one in the Maritimes, pumping tens of millions of dollars into the economy.
Locally grown and harvested Christmas trees are shipped all over North America.
With files from CTV's Mike Cameron.
