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The McDonough family has been farming on Gilligan Road in East Greenbush since 1920.  At that time the farm grew vegetables, fruit and raised livestock.  In he early 1960’s Paul McDonough started plating spruce trees on some of the farmland.   After ten years, the trees were tall enough to market, so the McDonough family started selling them at a local gas station for $4 or $5 dollars.Over the years, the Christmas tree business expanded as more fields were planted with [...]

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