Ok, so money really doesn’t grow on trees. However, there is money to be made in growing trees. Over 20 years ago my younger brother and I helped our father start a small mail order tree nursery. Our dad placed some classified ads in a few of the local papers advertising Colorado Blue Spruce tree seedlings for sale, to be delivered in the Spring for planting. He ordered the trees from a nursery supplier in Pennsylvania, and when the trees came in we helped pack and ship them to the customers. Today he has a full fledged tree nursery and landscape business in Mid-Western Wisconsin that still serves both mail order and drive in customers. Here is proof that money doesn’t grow on trees, but instead there is money to be made selling trees. (more…)