Our Site Is Different
Our site is different. We go about life doing things in ways
that you don't learn about at Harvard. The following examples of
recent happenings at Highland Hill Farm.
Our site security is important to us. Both internet and at our
main nursery. When my 84 year old father said he wanted to help
I had to let him help. So since people had been coming to the
nursery fields late at night and dumping trash, he said he would
sit in our lot and catch someone. After a few nights he called
me at 4 am. There was a truck. So I called 911 and went over in
my , well you know, and took my shot gun I was ready for bear.
Turns out it was the trash truck. Sometimes site security works
and sometimes it does not.
I think my father wants to get lucky. The other month I was
called by the police and told that there was someone stuck in
one of our fields. It was a late Sat. night. I went out to look
for the car as the police told me that a tow truck had been
called and the driver refused to enter my property without the
police because he suspected foul play. After searching I found
two girls and a guy, I was never that lucky, stuck in the mud of
one of our fields where we had just dug some arborvitae. Boy did
the fire company luck out when I refused to allow them to tow
out the car until they made a "Donation" to the Plumstead Fire
Company. I figured $2500 was reasonable. They also agreed.
This is a copy of my most recent email newsletter. This was an
overwhelming success.
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January 2006
The Early Bird Gets the Worm---Don't Delay Free Tree Day Jan.
28th is a Free Higan Weeping Cherry Tree Day
Greetings! January 28, 2006 is free Weeping Higan Cherry Tree
Day.....All members of our email club can receive a free Higan
Weeping Cherry when you bring your pickup to our 5275 West Swamp
Rd. Fountainville Pa. location. These trees are 10-12' tall and
in 24" baskets. These trees must be picked up on the 28th,
before 5pm. sorry, no rain checks. There is a limit of one per
family and you must have been a member on or before January 27,
2006 of our email club.
Sincerely,
Bill Hirst Free Tree Day Jan. 28th, 2006 is Free Tree Day
5275 W. Swamp Rd. Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923
January 28, 2006 8:00AM-5:00PM Reasons to Come to this Event We
are selling 150 acres of our nursery and we must liquidate many
trees and plants. Some of of plants are in quantities that would
supply us for many years of sales. But we can't move that number
of trees. Thus they will be either sold at a discount,
destroyed, or given away. I like the last option. Thus if you
bring your pickup to the farm today, Saturday the 28th, we will
give away 1 free Higan Weeping cherry to each email newsletter
subscriber to Highland Hill Farm that picks up the tree by 5PM.
Sorry you must be have be signed up by Jan. 27th, to qualify.
There are no rain checks. These trees are in 24 and 28 inch
baskets and are app. 10-14' tall. We will help load them in your
pickup.
We have a total of 75 trees ready to give away while the supply
lasts. All other trees and plants are 20% off today.
Driving Directions to the Farm Highland Hill Farm 5275 W. Swamp
Rd. Rt. 313 Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923 myhirst@yahoo.com
http://www.seedlingsrus.com We will have other free tree
offerings each month. So keep in touch.
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Within 15 minutes of this email being sent people started to
arrive to make selections. We would have had no customers on
this day. Yet we sold enough other stock to make this offering
possible. We gave away 52 trees and this was even covered by the
press showing up and giving us exposure in local papers.