Two girls walking together between Christmas trees at Lilley Homeplace Pines

Lilley Homeplace Pines • Opening November 21

A little Christmas
wonder grows here.

Discover Christmas trees, handmade holiday touches, and thoughtful gifts from local makers at Lilley Homeplace Pines.

Plan Your Visit Explore the Christmas Barn

A tree to bring home. Memories to keep.

Paige and Dylan with their daughters by the fence at Lilley Homeplace Pines

James Melvin Lilley and Josephine Parker built the Lilley Homeplace in 1883.

Our farm & family

An old homeplace.
A new Christmas story.

Lilley Homeplace Pines is a small choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm in Gates County, North Carolina. Paige and Dylan started the farm in 2021 with their daughters, Annabelle and Clara.

Dylan’s great-great-grandparents, James Melvin Lilley and Josephine Parker, built the homeplace in 1883. The land has been a row crop farm in his family for seven generations. After marrying, Paige and Dylan remodeled the home, moved in, and planted their first 500 white pine seedlings.

Today, they’re continuing that agricultural history with a simple goal: helping families make magical Christmas memories.

Christmas trees

Find your Christmas centerpiece.

The spot by the window. The ornaments you unpack every year. It all begins with a Christmas tree.

Visit our choose-and-cut farm this season and find the tree that feels just right for your home.

5–8 feet · $13 per foot$65–$104 per tree

Plan Your Visit

A family with their Christmas tree at the farm

The Christmas barn

The Christmas barn.

The Christmas barn is a part of the history of the homeplace. It housed livestock for 100+ years and is an excellent example of a North Carolina hand-hewn timber barn.

Along the barn walls, you’ll find a display of antique farm equipment, tools, and pieces of history that were used to build this farm.

Check out the barn first to grab a hand saw and receive instructions for tree harvesting.

In the Christmas barn, you’ll also find locally made art, thoughtful gifts, and festive finds to bring a little more Christmas home.

Locally Made Gifts

Pottery, jewelry, ornaments, candles and soaps, woodworking, children’s books, watercolor stationery, and Christmas decor.

Children’s books

A little wonder
for their bookshelf.

The Perfectly Imperfect Christmas Tree

Written & illustrated by Paige Lilley

Paige’s book shares the heart of Lilley Homeplace Pines: helping families make magical Christmas memories. She initially wrote the book as a gift to her children, but it’s now become a part of the farm’s mission. Bring a little Christmas tree farm magic to story time with her watercolor illustrations and story.