Aunt Edna's Kitchen
Aunt Edna offers recipes and useful tables for temperature or measurement conversion and food equivalents. Best of all, the site provides numerous links to food-related information such as nutrition and food safety, cooking and kitchen products, brand-name foods and companies, organizations, magazines and more.

Gourmet Spot
Find Zagat surveys, restaurant menus, "best of..." lists, a database of recipes and many other food-related links.

Community Supported Agriculture
Buy a share of a farm and eat locally grown, seasonal produce all summer long. Some CSAs deliver to your door; others deliver to a central location once a week, and you pick up your share.

Eat Wild
"Your source for safe, healthy, natural and nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry, pork, dairy and other wild edibles." Their Virginia page lists local farms that sell grass-fed meat as well as restaurants that serve these products.

Farmers Market Search
Locate farmers markets throughout the United States by state, county, city or zip code. Provided by the Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Local Area Farms and Farmers Markets

FoodSafety.gov
A resource for government information on food safety with a lengthy list of consumer advice topics.

National Center for Home Food Preservation — How do I? Freeze
Specific information for freezing all types of foods from apples to zucchini.

Penn State: Solution Source — Food Preparation, Safety and Storage
Topics include canning, freezing, pickling and safety concerns.

Still Tasty: Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide
Type in a food or beverage name, and this site will tell you how long you can safely store, refrigerate or freeze the item.

Cooking with Kids
Age-appropriate ideas for cooking with your children, including recipes. Remember, if they help make it, they're more likely to eat it!

Great Big Vegetable Challenge
One mother's attempt to get her picky 7-year-old son to eat more vegetables. They're eating their way through the vegetable alphabet, trying at least two recipes per vegetable.

Fast Food Facts
Look up the nutritional information for specific menu items from more than twenty of the larger fast-food chains.

USDA Nutrient Database
Ever wondered how much fiber was in an apple? How about the calorie count in a chicken pot pie? This site has all the answers.

All Recipes
More than 30,000 recipes created and tested by home cooks. The Advanced Search lets you specify which ingredients you want to use and which ingredients you don't want to see in a recipe.

Cooks.com
Even more recipes.

Epicurious
Thousands of recipes, including those from the latest issues of Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines. Keep your favorite recipes together in your own recipe box.

Food Network
Not sure what to make for dinner, but you've got to use up those pork chops and the avocados before they go bad? Type your ingredients into the search box at the top of the page, and find a recipe.

Recipe Link
In addition to thousands of recipes sent in by readers, this site has a section devoted to restaurant and name brand copycat recipes.

RecipeSource
Recipes from around the world, searchable by country or by type of dish, from SOAR, the Searchable Online Archive of Recipes.

Washington Post

The Cook's Thesaurus
Substitutions for thousands of cooking ingredients, including low-calorie and low-fat alternatives for dieters, inexpensive substitutes for gourmets on a budget and innovative replacements for hard-to-find ethnic ingredients.

Substitution Chart
The Recipes Today Web site features some hard-to-find ingredient substitutions.

Baking 911
A one-stop site for everything about baking. Recipes, advice, technique instruction and a forum to discuss your baking successes and failures with other bakers.

Cooking Contest Central
Lists rules and addresses for various cooking contests, and provides links to hundreds of contest-winning recipes.

Diet and Cancer
Learn how diet can reduce your risk of getting cancer, from the American Institute for Cancer Research.

How to Select Meat
Confused about how to cook that piece of meat you picked up at the grocery store? This site describes how to select, store and prepare beef, lamb, pork and veal.

Backyard Gardener
Features types of gardens for all sorts of locations, from dry gardens to alpine plantings, and offers suggestions for books and magazines to round out the information.

The Garden Helper
Offers a large listing of gardening resources on the practical care of plants, plant identification and botany, as well as links to gardening listserves.

GardenGuides
Growing guides, articles and organic solutions to plant growing problems for the garden.

The Gardening Launch Pad
Lots of links for the home gardener.

Gardening Links from the WWW Virtual Library
A broad selection of links, carefully selected and organized.

GardenWeb
Offers gardening tips, seed starting procedures, identification of plants, gardening directories, a glossary of gardening terms and a mystery plant contest among other types of pertinent gardening information.

Home and Garden Information Center
Lots of practical answers presented in a straightforward, easily-read format. One of the best sections features a diagnostic tool which offers photographs as well as descriptions and solutions to plant problems.

iloveplants.com
Frequently updated ideas and themes follow the gardening year. In addition, there is a large selection of Web sites covering varied subjects of interest to gardeners such as diseases, insects and general gardening information.

National Gardening
The National Gardening Association's Web site offers such useful features as daily and weekly gardening tips, a question and answer library, a buying guide and their own young gardeners site, KidsGardening.com.

Poisonous Plants Home Page
This Cornell University database allows you to find plants by both botanical and common names. Includes links to other sites featuring poisonous plant information. Note: Site may not include all pertinent information. Please check with your local Poison Control Center.

Trees are Good
Brochures on tree care from the International Society of Arboriculture.

Cicadas
Fact sheet from Pennsylvania State University about periodical cicadas (17-year locusts).

Household and Structural Pest Identification
From the Entomology Department at Virginia Tech, a lengthy list of pests with line drawings to aid in identification.

How to Manage Pests in Homes, Gardens, Landscapes and Turf
This University of California site provides information on the identification and management of these kinds of pests.

Insect Identification Laboratory
Virginia Tech's collection of information and guides on insects of home and garden.

Mosquitos

Pest World
The National Pest Management Association's list of pests with full descriptions, methods of control and color photos of various stages of development.

The Blue Book of Building and Construction
More than one million classified listings.

Home Improvement
Contains articles on remodeling projects and guides to home repair and maintenance.

Home Remodeling and Repair
A collection of full text articles from the Michigan State University Extension Service.

Home Repairs by Reader's Digest
Provides access to online support and step-by-step instructions to learn how to do simple and more advanced home repairs, from fixing a leaky faucet to repairing a broken cabinet and more.

"HOMETIME"
Videos and articles to help you repair and renovate your home from the Web site of the long-running PBS TV show.

House Plans by Dream Home Source
A great source of home design ideas. Search by criteria such as style of house; home size; or number of levels, bedrooms or bathrooms. You may view the elevation and the floor plans online, but you must pay if you choose to order a home plan.

Miss Utility
Call before you dig! Get the locations of utility lines on your property marked before you dig for any home improvement or gardening projects.

RepairClinic.com
Find help with major appliance repairs: Locate and order parts, look at diagrams of how machines work or read troubleshooting tips to help you decide what needs to be done.

Sweets.com
This online version of the multi-volume catalog is useful for finding out about construction-related products and their manufacturers.

Toiletology 101: The Care and Repair of Toilets

Household Product Safety Publications
A list of publications concerning household safety from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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Household Products Database
Health and safety information on a variety of household and garden products from the National Institutes of Health. A glossary of terms is included.

Safe Substitutes at Home: Nontoxic Household Products
A fact sheet discussing safe alternatives to many toxic household products, written by Gary A. Davis and Em Turner, University of Tennessee — Knoxville Waste Management Institute.

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American Society for Interior Design
The society's referral service provides an online form in which you indicate your decorating style (modern, traditional, etc.) and your estimated budget. The names of members of the society who match your preferences are returned.

Dezignare Interior Design Collective
Locate interior designers by geographical location or specialty. Includes listings of current design events, museums and exhibits.

HGTV Decorating
How-to demonstrations and ideas on everything from flower arranging and holiday design to turning trash into treasure.

Fabric Care Center
Information on fabric care, stain removal and laundry care products from FabrickLink.com.

Label Talk for Consumers
Learn to decipher the new image-only apparel care labels.

Quick 'n Easy Stain Removal
From the Ohio State Extension Service.