H&H Tree Farm earns regional tree farm award for Cass County woodlands

WALKER — H&H Tree Farm, owned by Mike and Jenny (Hegman) Higgins of Wayzata, has earned a regional tree farm award from the Minnesota Tree Farm Program. The Higgins have carried on the tradition of a productive and thriving tree farm that, during the tree farm’s life, has produced Christmas trees and timber products. Over the years, more than 50,000 trees have been planted. The 70-acre tree farm located in Cass County has been under the professional forest guidance of tree farm inspector-forester Gary Anderson for three generations of tree farm ownership, since 1972. Clyde Hegman purchased the original property in 1956 with the intent to make it into a Christmas tree farm. The property had 34 acres of old fields and 40 acres of poor-quality Aspen. The first 40 was planted in three phases (1958-’59, and ’60) to red pine. The south 40 — a 10-acre field — was planted in 1966 to red pine. Every year since 1966 Clyde Hegman sold Christmas trees from these plantings and replanted them.

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