Gifts Outside the Box

It's not the cheapest way to get a box of fresh apples, but it's memorable. Adopting an organic apple tree from My Eco Farmer gives you access to an amazingly abundant tree on an organic orchard. If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, then just think what a whole tree can do. (myecofarmer.com, $275 per tree, plus $55 annually for farming and maintenance, plus $30 per box of apples)

There are plenty of other types of trees to adopt as well:
Adopt an Organic Peach Tree: (masumoto.com, $500 per tree, plus the time and effort to harvest the fruit in Fresno, Calif.)
Adopt a Truffle Tree: (truffle-tree.com, $299 for the tree and all the mushrooms that sprout beneath it, $69 annual care and maintenance fee)
Petaluma Farms, various trees: (petalumabounty.org, $100 per tree)