Every month I receive a publication entitled “Rural Perspectives” from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. I don’t remember how I got on their mailing list, nor have I ever been asked to subscribe. The publication is eight pages long and often compares data from the rural counties (Carbon County is one) to the urban counties. The latest issue discusses rural county libraries and the services they provide, contains a demographic profile of PA rural families (quick summary–we’re getting older) and information on Christmas tree growers and biosolids disposal.
For your information, Carbon County has 17 Christmas tree farms. The county with the most is Schuylkill, which has 49. The number of Christmas tree farms is declining (I assume because people are buying artificial trees) and the most common type sold was Fraser fir (33%).
As for biosolid disposal (i.e., sewage sludge)(a.k.a., human excrement), the sewage treatment plants in Carbon landfill their sludge. In Northampton County to our south, most of the plants put the sludge on farmers’ fields. Of course, some of that sludge is trucked into Carbon to spread on farms along with the medicine, chemicals, pathogens, and forever chemicals it contains.
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