Gardening Links

  1. Gardenweb has forums on every topic you can think of, whether organic gardening, tomatoes, canning, drying flowers, you name it.  An excellent place to ask questions, or just to read and learn from other gardeners.  Marcia loves it!

  2. The University Of Wisconsin Extension has how to pages they call Info Source which has lots of good information on how to garden and grow things.

  3. University of Illinois Extension in DuPage Co And just their top level page for the entire state University of Illinois Extension

  4. University California Davis pest management This is kind of CA centric but still has good stuff. More information about pesticides, lawns, fruit trees.

  5. Southeastern Wisconsin Water Garden Club a.k.a. the Pond Club.

  6. Beckett Fountains and water gardens.
    (0)Intersolar water fountains. We own one of their floating solar fountains.

  7. Jung's Seeds Jung's Seed, order plants and seeds, etc. from an old Wisconsin company.. Marcia ordered from them online once!Spring flowersing trees and bushes along the road

  8. Princeton's Publications also bird books.

  9. USA Innovations ad 3 wheel wheelbarrow.

  10. Growing Power: a Milwaukee (and now Chicago) organization for grassroots urban, sustainable farming. Training, education and supplies.

Greenhouse/Garden Shed

We are looking for real greenhouse/heat gain houses. Or just a nice garden shed to give us space in the garage for our vehicle.

  1. Four Seasons Sun Rooms and their Wisconsin distributors Four Seasons Sun Rooms Wis They like to call them "conservatories". They talk about eliminating "unwanted heat gain" from the glass. (They show the "Soft Tub" in their advertisements.)  Can incorporate Siemens PowerMax solar cells into the roof of their sun rooms.

  2. Chicago Solar Partnership

  3. Juliana Greenhouses appear to be easy to install and are fairly inexpensive ($600-$3000). Use a web search engine to find dealers.

  4. Solar Tube Think skylight but it fits between the joists.

Canning

  1. Home Canning.com

  2. Home Canning Supply.com

  3. Ohio Line also has good things about freezing and safe food handling. All from Ohio State

  4. UMN extension Look under Living -> Food. It also has a nice gardening page. All from UMN Minnesota

  5. UGA Extension go to food -> publications . From University of Georgia

  6. Gardenweb Harvest Forum -> Much info on canning

Around the House

  1. Thompson's water seal

  2. Karcher USA pressure washers

  3. Schlage Lock not a great site, but a little helpful if you have these kind of locks.

  4. Kilz Stain killing primer paint.

  5. ESRI and FEMA hazards map

  6. American Solar Energy Society (0)Database of State Incentives for Renewable Enegery also has Federal incentives.(0)Wisconsin Renewable Energy Yellow Pages (0)Wisconsin Division of Energy (0)Wisconsin Legislation (0) BAD LINK Wisconsin Public Service Commission  (0) Midwest Renewable Energy Association  (0) Nasa's Solar Energy Info for Planet Earth shows how much solar energy is available anyplace. (0) Nationa Association of State Enegry Officials (0) Solar Energy International short courses (0) Energy tax incentives 2005 and 2007 systems (0) American Councle for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) (0) California Energy Commission (0) CalStart (0) Rocky Mountain Institute (0) Florida Solar Energy Center (0) Solar Energy Industries Association (0) Institute for Solar Living the Real Goods (Giam) place (0) Energy Information Administration DOE Not really solar enegery, but general enegery info.

  7. Wind Energy info including payback and wind charts. NOAA National Climatic Data Center (0)DOE wind power (0)AWEAAmerican Wind Enegry Association (0)Friends of the Earth search for "wind power" or go to their Center for Alternative Technology (0)National Technical Information Service U.S. Department of Commerce (0)Home Power Magazine

  8. Renew Wisconsin>

  9. Dimplex space heaters Honeywell Thermostats you can get to their home page from there.

  10. Our new (2003) furnace is made by Armstrong Air a division of Lennox. Ultra V Tech 91 gas High Efficiency.

  11. Owens Corning insulation

  12. Plano Molding plastic containers tool boxes. We have several of their products, they work well.

  13. Old Appliance Club looking for a part for that old stove, try this.

  14. AAA Environmental Industries Inc. If you need your septic tank pumped out, this is who to call. 414-761-9542

  15. Ryobi Tools our table saw ...
    Great lakes tool our reciprocating saw

  16. Rechargable Battery Recycling Corporation

Hot tub Pages

  1. Soft Tub Small semi-hard hot tub. Movable, fill with a garden hose, uses the heat off the pump as the heater. We are a little worried about hot tubs attracting elephants. (We saw that in various ads.)

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