Balsam, known for its aroma that creates the ambiance of friendship and good feeling, is "nature's air freshener." Our Balsam is carefully grown, harvested and processed naturally from our Christmas tree plantation high in the Adirondack Mountains. Enjoy the fragrant aroma of Christmas and pristine woods year-round with our decorative designs that are colorful and functional. We suggest using them in the car, closets, dresser drawers, or your favorite spots throughout your home and office. A well-known local artist was commissioned to draw several of our unique wildlife and scenic designs for silk-screening onto high-quality cotton duck fabric. Our embroidered products are also specially designed for us.

Long popular as a fragrant Christmas tree, and the material of choice for fragrant Holiday wreaths, Balsam Fir has a long tradition of other uses as well. In the 1800's, woodsmen in the Adirondacks used balsam boughs for bedding material for the softness of the boughs and also for the rich fir fragrance. Their fondness for the fragrance led to the development of the Balsam Pillow, both for bedding and as a decorative accessory. Balsam pillows became so popular that women's church groups throughout the Adirondacks would hold Balsam Bees to make the pillows for a church fund-raiser, and tourists would look forward to bringing several home to capture a touch of the mountain aroma. More exotic application of the balsam also emerged in the 1800's, such as "Balsa-Jel" a mixture of balsam pitch and Vaseline, recommended for clearing nasal passages and for throat irritation. Balsam pitch is the active ingredient in Lee's Save-The-Baby, a cough suppressant sold continuously since 1874. And the freshness of the balsam, pine and hemlock in the air was an element of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau's therapy at his sanitarium for tuberculosis in Saranac Lake.

All our Balsam products are hand-crafted in the Adirondacks using high- quality, long-lasting materials. The pillows are all hand-crafted at our farm with care and pride.