An apple a day ...

Looking for a fresh, different gift this holiday season? Arizona-based Valley Farms will send you, and anyone else on your shopping list, a 10-pound box of delicious organic apples this season, and every season for the next 20 years. When you adopt an apple tree at the farm (a $200 to $250 one-time fee, depending on the apple type, plus $45 yearly costs), you become entitled to its yearly yield of fruit for as long as it lives (typically 25 years). Valley Farms will pick, package and send this fruit to whomever you like ($11.50 plus shipping charges). Even if you don't buy your own tree, Valley Farms will ship individual gift boxes ($39.95). Your purchase not only supports quality organic produce, but five percent of it is donated to The Great American Bake Sale to end child hunger in the U.S. CONTACT: Valley Farms, [phone], www.deserts weetorganic.com.

--Aaron, Midler