Garden Lover answers:

There are quite a few organic businesses in the Madison area, but a full-out organic nursery… that’s a difficult beast, simply because of the way plants are cultivated. But there is a fun shop called “orange tree imports” that may just the bill. Here is the web site
http://www.orangetreeimports.com/

And if you are looking for a native plant sort of place, The Prairie Nursery might be the ticket. They do GC and have a website, but are located a bit north of Madison (but certainly a fun day trip) in Westfield, WI.

Garden Lover answers:

Yes, but make it a low key kind of list.

You are not selling these gift baskets in a store, so I don’t think you should have to go overboard with your list. However, I think that if you write a brief message about how you put this basket together yourself out of ingredients from your own garden and organic farmers markets, you could get people to bid more for your basket, given the current trend favoring locally made goods.

Keep it brief! I ‘d write a paragraph about how you are local person that put everything together the way you did. Then in the next paragraph do an ingredient list. From a legal standpoint, the goods are not technically for sale, so you probably don’t have to include ingredients, but it would be nice.