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  Garden Clubs

Local garden clubs include Master Gardeners 

Home Builders Association

Golden Sands Home Builders Association 1001 Theatre Drive Plover 341-0997. Among other things, they sponsor the Parade of Homes each Spring.

Central Wisconsin Homebuilders Association 
The Central Wisconsin Home Builders Association represents the professionals involved in the shelter industry in the Central Wisconsin area. 

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  Food
   
 

Home Canning Online
Home Canning Online magazine, recipes, tips on canning and preserving.

Cook's Thesaurus
Suggests substitutions for over 1,500 cooking ingredients, including low-calorie and low-fat alternatives  and inexpensive substitutes.

Recipes
AllRecipes.com
Actually 13 different sites, such as ChickenRecipe.com, CookieRecipe.com and ThanksgivingRecipe.com.  Each site has daily suggestions and a top ten list, plus conversion and subsitutions.

Better Homes & Gardens

Online version of the popular magazine with sections on food, gardening, home improvement, family, crafts, travel, and health. 

Epicurious
Excellent food site. With a database of over 5,000 recipes, recipes for over 250 cocktails, and online editions of Bon Appetit and Gourmet. 

Global Gourmet 
International recipes and cooking traditions arranged by country or region. "Each nation has a Backgrounder that explains the cultural, historical and geographical influences."

Internet Chef On-Line Magazine 
A searchable archive of almost 30,000 recipes with a Tips & Hints section.

My Menu
Find complete meal plans or individual recipes by category, by nutritional content, by course, or look up dietary exchange information. 

RecipeSource, formerly, SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes
The largest set (over 38,000) of recipes on the web. Index by ingredient.

Top Secret Recipes
Cook just like the Colonel, or Nabisco or, well, you get the idea. Your favorite restaurant and grocery items reproduced.

Turkeys (Butterball) 
Everything you always wanted to know about preparing turkey, including planning, thawing (defrosting), cooking (roasting and grilling), garnishing, carving and stuffing. 

Vegetarian and Vegan Cookery

Vegetarian Kitchen  
Vegetarian recipes and links to cooking sites from vegetarian cookbook author, Nava Atlas.

Vegetarian Pages  
A variety of vegetarian and vegan information and links including recipes, online articles, books, lists of restaurants, and organizations. Try their Mega Index for specific vegetarian topics.

VegetarianRecipe.com
Part of the AllRecipes site, but chock full of vegetarian and vegan recipes, with a glossary and conversion tables.

Virtual Vegetarian
Recipes, resources for a vegetarian lifestyle, Natural Remedies and Vegetarian Links. Sponsored by The Vegetarian Times.

Veggies Unite!
Place for vegetarians to start researching. Searchable directory of more than 2,000
vegan recipes, links to other vegetarian sites, and more.

   
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  Gardening
   
 

Better Homes & Gardens
Online version of the popular magazine with sections on food, gardening, home improvement, family, crafts, travel, and health. 

Compost Resource Page

This site is intended to serve as a hub of information for anyone interested in the various aspects of composting.

The Garden Gate
An annotated directory of selected gardening sites with useful original material. The
guide to searching the WWW for specific plant information is excellent.

Green Landscaping With Native Plants 
Fill your yard, garden, or other open space with plants that grow wild in your area, which benefits the environment and looks great. From the Environmental Protection Agency.

Howard Garrett's Basic Organic Program 
An overview of the basic principles of organic gardening, from naturally controlling insects to making garlic sprays and other organic recipes. Read all about the dangers of pesticides.

National Gardening Association 
Features a library of articles from NG Magazine; a  searchable Q & A library; a horticultural dictionary and their buyers' guide to mail-order gardening companies.

Northern Gardening
Tips from a Minnesota Master gardener specifically for northern climate zones.

Tree Care Consumer Information
Presents fifteen brochures on topics such as pruning, care, planting, values, purchasing & selection, hazards to trees, benefits of trees, arborists, why topping hurts trees, and more.

 USDA Gypsy moth web site.  This site contains information about the gypsy moth. Data is from the USDA Forest Service Cooperative gypsy moth suppression, eradication, and slow-the-spread projects. The Gypsy Moth Digest is maintained by the USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry, Morgantown, WV.

WebGarden 
Includes a searchable database of over 20,000 fact sheets from universities and cooperative extensions, a dictionary of plants with links to images and descriptions, and links to other Internet gardening resources.

   
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  Homes
   
  Home Buying

Homefair
Find a home, research a community, find movers, check mortgage options - all on one site.

Home Repair
Do it Yourself 
Covers a variety of home repair tasks, from sanding a floor to buying a house.

Home Improvement
- Hometime's Projects 
Step-by-step instructions on electrical, plumbing, roofing and other projects. From the PBS TV Program

Home Improvement Encyclopedia 
Better Homes and Garden's online resource for home repair and improvement has five sections: Plumbing; Wiring; Carpentry; Decks; and  Masonry and Concrete.

Home Maintenance and Repair 
A directory of information about maintaining homes and appliances, with information about removing various types of stains, controlling household pests, and coping with fires and floods.

Toiletology 101: the Care and Repair of Toilets
A serious and comprehensive site on toilet repair, with step-by-step instructions and diagrams. There is a good index by part and/or problem. 

VCR Repair
Discover how easy it is to fix most VCRs. This site includes model specific information and general advice on cleaning, removing stuck tapes and other methods of salvaging a balky VCR.

Landlord - Tenant
Landlord-tenant law: an overview
Coverage of Federal laws, uniform codes and court decisions.

Landlords and Tenants : The Wisconsin Way
Includes the text of the state laws and regulations, as well as advice from the Bureau of Consumer Protection.
   
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