About This Farm

Shade Trees Nursery was first started by my father & mother almost 60 years ago with the purchase of an over grown twenty acre farm field on Herricks Lane in Jamesport. My father worked tirelessly clearing the field with an old Ford 8N tractor and a cultivator going up & down the field for weeks until all the brush had been cleared and the farm ready to plant. At the time, my father was a landscape contractor, bidding on contracts for Nassau County, New York State, NYC parks Department and also