Ten-year-old Harbor Eaton lives with her family on Darthia Farm on Maine’s Schoodic Peninsula.
The Eaton family primairly grows produce crops, but balsam-harvesting and wreath-making is a way of extending the farm’s production into the colder, darker seasons.
In November and December, Harbor goes out tipping with her family and farm workers on adjacent woodlots, with the aid of their horses, Andy and Starr.
“You go out into the woods, try to find a tree with good foliage.
You take a branch, snap it and make sure it doesn’t have brown spots on it — ’cause you don’t want a brown wreath,” Harbor explained.