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Stacey Davis, left, and Carl Peckham, both employees at Memory Lane Christmas Tree Farm, prepare to cut a tree last week for a customer at 2710 Vermont Road, Rantoul. Memory Lane is Franklin County’s only Christmas Tree farm. “We get people from all over the Kansas City area out here,” Davis said.

Rantoul farm grows memories

By LINDA BROWN, Herald Staff

To the casual observer, it looks like Harry Peckham grows pumpkins and Christmas trees to sell.

Peckham said the pumpkins sold in October at Peckham’s Pumpkin Patch and the Scotch pine Christmas trees sold in December at Memory Lane Christmas Tree Farm, 2710 Vermont Rd., Rantoul, are secondary crops.

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