In the lore of Taylor Swift's life, there are details and events that come up repeatedly over the years. Some are mentioned repeatedly in her lyrics but remain off-subject in interviews (like certain events early in her relationship with Joe Alwyn (her initial attraction to him when she was dating someone else, the dive bar date, the big talk on the rooftop), and others, become part of her mythology in the form of songs and interviews, like her childhood growing up on a Christmas tree farm.

In addition to being the subject of her 2019 Christmas song, this all-too-old-fashioned detail is a very real part of Swift's upbringing. Before her family moved to Nashville to pursue her music career, Swift's family really lived on a Christmas tree farm in West Reading, PA.

A full decade before the release of “Christmas Tree Farm,” Swift revealed her experience growing up on that farm in an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. In that video, which was re-released just in time for the holiday season, Swift revealed that she worked on the farm collecting praying mantis from the Douglas fir trees.

“Mantis lay eggs and make pods on the Douglas fir Christmas trees.

“They lay their eggs on the Christmas tree and make pods.

“That's where I come in,” she continued. 'I walk around the Christmas tree all day, picking bugs and putting them in little baskets.'

Swift continued to mention her days at the Christmas tree farm during a 2014 interview with Esquire magazine, attributing the experience to her undying love of the holiday season.

“It was a strange place to grow up,” she said. But it cemented in me this unnatural level of excitement for the fall and then the holiday season.”

And, of course, there is Swift's 2019 song “Christmas Tree Farm,” a music video featuring live-action footage from the Swift family's holiday home videos of the time.