White House selects North Carolina family's Christmas tree farm to provide 2024 tree

With the holiday season fast approaching, the White House is getting ready to deck the halls.

The annual tradition of selecting the perfect Christmas tree is held through the National Christmas Tree Contest.

This year's honor was bestowed on Cartner's Christmas Tree Farm in Newland, North Carolina.

Sam Cartner, owner of Cartner Christmas Tree Farm, told Fox News Digital in an on-camera interview that his farm has competed several times, and that it's honored to be chosen. (See the video at the top of this article.)

Since 1966, members of the National Christmas Tree Association have presented the official White House Christmas Tree for display in the Blue Room.

Cartner's Christmas Tree farm will propose six to eight trees to be selected by four White House officials who will be visiting the farm to select the final one.

"They're slightly acidic and well-drained, and we get a lot of rainfall and snow and have cold weather."

The trees being proposed for the White House took roughly 25 years to grow.

"I think one of the main reasons my dad was a pioneer in this business - he was a cultural extension agent here and promoted Christmas trees [as] a better cash crop here in the mountains where it was hard to grow other crops with such a short growing season," Sam Cartner said. 

"And it's become such a successful industry for being the second major income producer in these western counties behind tourism."

"[Farms] try to make it an experience where the family can enjoy food and drinks and music and photos, storytelling," Sam Cartner said. 

"[People] kind of forget that maybe their ceiling is not as tall as the tree is at the field, and they get home and, you know, they end up having to alter the size," Jim Cartner said. 

He added, "[It] is a tradition that we like to see families develop, and I think they'll have a great time picking trees out."

The farm will have a send-off "harvest" on Nov. 20 with a fundraiser benefiting families in western North Carolina that have been devastated by recent flooding.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.