Each year, MCTA holds their annual Christmas tree and wreath contests at the Fryeburg Fiar. Tree growers and wreath makers enter their best trees and wreaths to compete for the top prizes in several categories. These are the results of the 2024 Tree and Wreath Contests
GRAND CHAMPION & RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION CHRISTMAS TREES
Grand Champion: LaCasce Family (Finest Kind Tree Farm / Dover-Foxcroft, ME) – Blue Korean Fir
Reserve Grand Champion: Ryan and Colleen Liberty (Crooked Brook Farm / Wells, ME) – Balsam Fir
BALSAM FIRS
- Crooked Brook Farm (Wells, ME) – 484 Points
- Finest Kind Tree Farm (Dover-Foxcroft, ME) – 479 Points
- Bryan Mayo (Red Barn Tree Farm / Etna, ME) – 451 Points
- Nutkin Knoll Tree Farm (Newburgh, ME) – 450 Points
- Rob Mulvey (Pleasant View Tree Farm / Hodgdon, ME) – 447 Points
- Doug Fortier (Merry Christmas Tree Farm / Windham, ME) – 444 Points
- Miles Finnegan (Finnegan’s Fine Firs / Bethlehem, NH) – 437 Points
- Matthew Quinn (Quinns Tree Farm / Cornville, ME) – 434 Points
- Joanne Bond (Bond Mountain Acres / W. Newfield, ME) – 427 Points
- Jim Hummer (Hummer Tree Farm / Bath, ME) – 422 Points
- Trees To Please (Norridgewock, ME) – 416 Points
- Jesse and Molly Jimerson (Piper Mountain Tree Farm / Newburgh, ME) – 407 Points
- Skillin’s Greenhouse (Falmouth, ME) – 405 Points
PINES
- Miles Finnegan (Finnegan’s Fine Firs / Bethlehem, NH) – White Pine – 461 Points
- Trees To Please (Norridgewock, ME) – White Pine – 402 Points
SPRUCES
- Boiling Spring Tree Farm (Dayton, ME) – Colorado Blue Spruce – 460 Points
- Nutkin Knoll Tree Farm (Newburgh, ME) – Meyer Spruce – 454 Points
- Miles Finnegan (Finnegan’s Fine Firs / Bethlehem, NH) – (species not listed) – 436 Points
- Trees To Please (Norridgewock, ME) – White Spruce – 434 Points
WREATHS – UNDECORATED
- Kelsey Price (Nutkin Knoll / Newburgh, ME) – 170 Points
- Dawson Laflamme (Whitefield, NH) – 167 Points
- Christina Laflamme (Whitefield, NH) – 165 Points
- Barbara Martineau (Piper Mountain / Unity, ME) – 159 Points
- Wanda Wilcox (Newcastle, ME) -157 Points
- Jacque Huff (Quinn’s Tree Farm / Athens, ME) – 155 Points
- Jill King (Piper Mountain / Hampden, ME) – 154 Points
- Maria Kingsbury (Piper Mountain / Dixmont, ME) – 152 Points
- June Brooks (Whitefield, NH) – 149 Points
- Trees to Please (Norridgewock, ME) – 145 Points
- Christine Quinn (Quinn’s Tree Farm / Cornville, ME) – 136 Points
- Matt Quinn (Quinn’s Tree Farm / Cornville, ME) – 125 Points
- Elijah Hayes (Poland, ME) – 104 Points
- Sara Hayes (Poland, ME) – 76 Points
WREATHS – DECORATED
- Kelsey Price (Nutkin Knoll / Newburgh, ME) – 276 Points
- Jill King (Piper Mountain / Hampden, ME) – 260 Points
- Christina Laflamme (Whitefield, NH, ME) – 249 Points
- Trees to Please (Norridgewock, ME) – 246 Points
- Heidi Watson (Watson Tree Farm / Standish, ME) – 242 Points
- Barbara Martineau (Piper Mountain / Unity, ME) – 239 Points
- Wanda Wilcox (New Castle, ME) – 235 Points
- June Brooks (Whitefield, NH) – 233 Points
- Dawson Laflamme (Whitefield, NH) – 231 Points
- Raya Marshall (Quinn’s Tree Farm / Athens, ME) – 226 Points
- Nancy Price (Nutkin Knoll / Newburgh, ME) – 220 Points
- Maria Kingsbury (Piper Mountain / Dixmont, ME) – 218 Points
- Jacque Huff (Quinn’s Free Farm / Athens, ME) – 206 Points
- Brandon Watson (Watson Tree Farm / Standish, ME) – 201 Points
- Erin DePhillipo (Watson Tree Farm / Standish, ME) – 186 Points
- Connie Grovo (Watson Tree Farm / Standish, ME) – 181 Points
- Evelyn Haves (Poland, ME) – did not compete