Bartlett

Bartlett calls it a win-win situation.

The first two weekends of December are the busiest time for selling trees. However, clients are welcome anytime. One Bartlett is always by the phone. On this day, the weather is mild. The firs and pines are waiting for the first customers of the day. Joann Bartlett takes advantage of the lull to create Christmas garlands, talk on the phone, and patiently wait. Her husband Bill arrives just in time for the first buyers.

Joann Bartlett and her husband Bill grew up in Washington, D.C. As children both dreamed about farming. In 1972, they bought some land in Culpepper, Virginia — just a two-hour drive from the nation's capital.

The first bite into those Bartletts was intoxicating. The juice met your teeth with a gush.