Braun’s Trees

10 $ per foot. Price does not include pine needles and a limited number of branches. This place left a lot to be desired as we spent over an hour looking for a decent tree that we could put in our house. Cost us 55 $ for a five foot tree! Brauns needs to either improve their quality or reduce their price!

Very disappointing. U-​cut selection is deplorable: poorly planted and unmaintained trees. Basically just a hook to get you to buy a trucked in trees at inflated prices. Save your money. Go to Lowe’s or coscto and buy same tree with a warranty.
Let me start by saying I have 30+ yrs experience with fresh Christmas trees, including on my extended family’s tree farm. Braun’s advertises as selling «u-​cut» and «pre-​cut» trees. We went here to get as fresh cut tree as possible to last us through epiphany. After spending more than an hour hiking through the property, we were disappointed to the point of being confused; to call brauns a Christmas tree «farm» is a stretch. We thought well at least we’ll get one that was fresh cut on site. No dice. They truck in their trees from elsewhere, just like the big box stores.
Summary? Poorly planted and unmaintained trees for sale as «u-​cut» for same prices as those trucked in. Not worth it.

Just got back from getting a tree. We had a very nice time searching for the perfect tree and found a very nice one that we are happy with. They had a nice selection and the employees (outside) are Very nice and helpful. Unfortunately, when we went to pay… the prices were raised right before our eyes! We looked at the website right before we came and trees were $ 6-​$ 8 a foot. We found a 6ft tree. Now all trees are an even $ 10 a foot. I was charged $ 12 more than I was expecting. When questioned about the price it was, «Yeah…we just raised our prices 2hrs ago…» Not very professional. Left a bad taste in my mouth. Need to be a little quicker on changing that info on the website… not at 1pm on the Friday after Thanksgiving!

Did you know that Michigan has more Christmas tree farms than 47 of the states in this nation?
Support the local economy, the environment, and your own fun old-​fashioned Griswold family Christmas, by getting a real tree from a nearby farm! Braun’s worked great for us.
Parking here is a bit haphazard, and possibly life-​endangering. Picture a small dirt road, with cars of all types parallel parked, half on the road and half in the ditch, all the way up and down both sides of the road. There’s only room for one car to squeeze through at a time. Now throw in small children, dogs, tense mothers, folks hauling large fir trees on their shoulders, and rolls of twine being tossed back and forth over the roofs of cars. Move with caution, please!
When we got out of the car, we were greeted immediately by a tentative teenager in a neon orange vest. We described what we were looking for: We live in a smallish apartment, we don’t have a TON of ornaments, and neither of us is particularly tall, so we were looking for something more like a Christmas bush… something like…“THAT ONE!” It was waiting for us, right smack in the front of the pre-​cut section.
Of course, we had to look around a little bit to be sure that it was the MOST perfect tree. Most of the pre-​cuts available were 7 – 10 ft. tall, and we weren’t quite up for tromping out in the fields to cut down our own (though maybe someday we’ll subject our hypothetical children to this holiday tradition – the families we saw seemed to be having a great time, and leashed dogs are welcome to join in the adventure!) so we nabbed our perfect pre-​cut.
(As an aside, I’m a bit amazed that in today’s litigious society, it’s even feasible for a business to hand out saws to unknown folks and send them out into the woods with children and dogs. Let’s do our part to keep this safe, legal, and reasonable: head out to Braun’s, or any tree farm, to ensure that the sane folks will always vastly outnumber the Christmas fruitcakes!)
Even though we didn’t cut our own, I think we were better off getting our pre-​cut tree from a farm, because it was cut, at most, a couple of days ago, not a couple of weeks ago for shipment to a lot.
Prices seemed comparable to what I’ve seen and paid elsewhere (we paid $ 48 for a 6 ft pre-​cut tree). Prices per foot are listed on the website (deal alert: ALL white pines are $ 25 per tree).
Watching them prepare your tree is part of the fun: first, they stick it on a machine that shakes it vigorously, to get all loose needles off. Then they pop it through a twine baler, and hand you a neatly bundled, easy-​to-​carry tree that looks like a closed umbrella.
The kids working there are friendly and helpful – one reminded us to put it on the car with the trunk facing forward, so the wind wouldn’t catch the branches the wrong way.
I don’t have much to compare this place to, but it worked great for us. Just look out for the small handful of enraged christmas crazies («Do you have some clippers I can use?» «Let me check» «THE ANSWER IS YES OR NO!»), be extra nice to the hardworking kids, to make up for the crazies, and have yourself a merry little Christmas now.