In the mid 1930s, the Botek family began selling Christmas trees at our small family run grocery store. This sparked an interest in raising trees and in 1950 a couple of acres of Scotch pine were planted near Lehighton, PA. The youngest child in the Botek family, Francis, enjoyed working with the trees from year to year. In 1964, Francis and his wife Margaret bought about 25 acres of land in the beautiful Mahoning Valley.