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N5279 County Road G, St. Cloud Just minutes E of Fond du Lac off Highway 23 920-477-7111

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Visit the Cheese Store at the awardwinning Baker Cheese to experience fresh string cheese made daily. They also have 100+ varieties of other cheeses from the

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best cheesemakers in Wisconsin. With a combined 115+ years of experienced licensed cheesemakers who focus exclusively on string cheese, their passion and expertise is unmatched. Combine that with an all-natural process and you’ll experience freshness like no other string cheese. In less than 48 hours from the time the milk leaves the farm, their all-natural string cheese is ready for your enjoyment. Baker Cheese is a fourth-generation, family-owned business that proudly celebrated 100 years of exceptional service in 2016.

BRYANNA’S BAKERY

248 S. Park Avenue 920-922-8056

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European-style desserts at their best! The unassuming location and building houses a real, high-quality bakery. Bryanna’s Bakery is an excellent bakery for pastries, tarts, cheesecake, baklava, cakes for all occasions, and Mexican bread. They use only the finest ingredients!

101 N. Milwaukee Street, Theresa 920-488-9269

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Confections For Any Occasion by Joel is an old-fashioned downtown candy store featuring gourmet and novelty chocolates, nostalgic candies, Cedar Crest ice cream, Wisconsin wines, and other gourmet foods. They offer a casual dining experience and menu including burgers, pizza, and Friday Fish Fry. Confections For Any Occasion by Joel also offers the finest decadent chocolates; beer; cheese; sausage; popcorns; Sprecher soda; and many other unique, hard-to-find candies. Their collection of chocolates includes gourmet truffles, toffee, caramels, and much more. With their wide selection of chocolate and confections, you will be sure to find a perfect gift for your very special someone.

EDEN MEAT MARKET

115 E. Main Street, Eden 920-477-2711

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The Eden Meat Market has been providing quality cut fresh meat and sausages since the 1890s. Their homemade sausages and jerky along with hams and bacon is still smoked in their original block smokehouses using applewood slabs to give a real, natural smoke flavor—never artificial. A full-service meat counter is packed full of a huge variety of products, from fresh-cut steaks, chops, and chicken to an assortment of seasoned and stuffed chicken breasts available every day along with an array of heat-and-serve items, including homemade pizzas and prepared meats that are perfect for any meal! Visit their website or Facebook page for their weekly specials. Voted Best Meat Market 14 years in a row. Come see why!

FARIS GOURMET POPCORN & TREATS

770 W. Scott Street 920-921-1347

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Faris Gourmet Popcorn & Treats is an award-winning, local family business. What’s better than that? How about over 150 gourmet popcorn flavors handmade in small batches to ensure every kernel is popped to perfection! They strive to provide their customers with the most wholesome, unique, and delicious popcorn at an affordable price. Pop into their retail store, visit their online store, and follow them on Facebook and Instagram for all your popcorn updates! United Manufacturers, Inc. is their parent company specializing in a variety of custom contract sewing products since 1987. Contact them for all of your specialized industrial sewing needs.

W2994 County Road HH, Malone Just minutes N from Fond du Lac off Highway 151 920-670-0051

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LaClare Family Creamery was founded in 1978 with a foundation rooted in artistry, family values, and hard work. This is where you will taste something out of the ordinary with a line of award-winning goat cheese in a variety of flavors. Stop in their shoppe and sample a selection of these cheeses from LaClare Family Creamery and Saxon Creamery. Enjoy a freshly made grilled sandwich, salad, or cup of soup while exploring the visitors center or watching their cheesemakers craft their award-winning cheeses. Explore their newly expanded outdoor area (open May-Oct) and hang out with some of the goats. This area is complete with a 26 ft high goat silo, a whole new way to enjoy the goats. Along with their cheeses, the retail shoppe also features goat milk caramels and goat milk soaps and lotions. They also offer ice cream, wine, a variety of Wisconsin specialty foods, and gift items. Cheese sampling is offered every day! Don’t forget to take a selfie with the goats! Spring Garden Center is open Apr-June. Open MonSat 9am-5pm and Sun 10am-3pm.

WIDMER’S CHEESE CELLARS

214 W. Henni Street, Theresa 920-488-2503

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Entering Widmer’s Cheese Cellars in the tiny town of Theresa is like stepping back in time. Adorned with the flags of Swiss cantons on the outside, the plant inside affords visitors a close-up look at the making of some of the Dairy State’s best, most classic cheese varieties. They produce some of the finest cheeses in the world but are best known for their traditional stirred-curd Wisconsin Colby; award-winning aged Cheddar; and, of course, classic Wisconsin aged Brick. Handcrafted in small batches to ensure quality. They will ship anywhere in the U.S. Come and watch them make cheese from their retail store!

ADORN YOURSELF

ARGENTUM ET AURUM JEWELRY

25 N. Main Street 920-579-3146

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Jewelry with a touch of ancient history, legends, and pirate treasures! Original handcrafted fine jewelry created in a unique antique-filled space using post-consumer, recycled gold and silver and natural gemstones. This singular boutique now creates carefully selected clothing, home goods, fossils, and mineral specimens—all in keeping with the shop’s unique vibe. Come find that perfect something with a touch of magic here at Argentum et Aurum Jewelry.

105 N. Main Street 920-921-2475

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Award-winning, full-service jewelry store located in Downtown Fond du Lac. Quality service and value since 1922! Come and see their impressive display of jewelry, watches, and clocks. They also offer diamond settings, engraving, clock repair, watch repair, and jewelry repair and cleaning. Celebrating 100 years in 2022!

LILLIANS OF FOND DU LAC

27 S. Main Street 920-322-1844

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With fun and fabulous fashion located in the heart of the Downtown District, Lillians of Fond du Lac features dresses, tops, denim, handbags, and so much more! Their looks put the Midwestern woman front and center, championing the everyday over avant-garde while pursuing the latest trends. Every woman should have her own style, and they stock a range of sizes, including extended sizes. Like them on Facebook for new arrivals.

THE GOLDSMITH

177 S. Main Street 920-921-3113

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The Goldsmith, celebrating 47 years, specializes in one-of-a-kind jewelry designs and unique gift items. They offer same day service on most jewelry and eyeglass frame repairs. Their on-site appraisals are completed by their certified gemologist appraiser. The Goldsmith—a colorful shop in Downtown Fond du Lac.

TREAT YOURSELF

CUJAK’S WINE & SPIRITS

47 N. Main Street 920-948-2599

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Cujak’s Wine & Spirits provides their customers with quality wine, spirits, gift baskets, olive oil, and personal service. You may select from over 100 wines from around the world. These hand-picked wines are sourced from boutique wineries across the globe. You may pick from small-batch bourbons and whiskeys too. Pick out a custom gift basket for a friend or family member while enjoying a glass of wine. Sip, pour, repeat.

LEDGEROCK DISTILLERY

N5287 Grandview Road 920-238-9588

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The distillery destination in your own backyard! Ledgerock Distillery is a Wisconsin-proud distiller dedicated to creating delicious, all-natural spirits for

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those who appreciate the personal touch. They’re among the first farm distilleries in the state growing, distilling, and bottling their spirits on-site. They grow their grains and distill their spirits on the farm, ensuring a hands-on, down-home quality from start to finish. See every step of the process—from the fields where they grow the wheat and corn to the storing facility and fermenter to the bottling and labeling center—and learn why Ledgerock’s spirits are naturally delicious. They have Vodka “Traditional” which is perfect for mixing or enjoying on its own. Their Back Forty Moonshine is great for sipping or mixing into your favorite cocktails. Frostbite Gin—genuine Wisconsin gin. Enough said. Their Farm Boy Bourbon has turned out to be a great “wheater” if they do say so themselves. The Retzer Farm Bourbon, named after the family farm, can be enjoyed on the rocks or as the base of a great cocktail. Finally, they have limited runs of Ledgerock Corn Whiskey. Please visit their Facebook page for all of their upcoming events.

VINES & RUSHES WINERY

410 County Road E, Ripon 920-748-3296

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Vines & Rushes Winery is a winery located on the Prellwitz family farm in Ripon focusing on using Wisconsin-grown, coldhardy grape varieties capable of surviving Wisconsin’s winters. Visitors experience a relaxing rural setting while enjoying a wine tasting or glass of wine. You can also choose from a selection of local craft beers and, on select days, wood-fired brick-oven pizzas. They believe in connecting with family and friends over food and drink and look forward to sharing a slice of Wisconsin with you! Visit their website for all the details.

ZIEGLER WINERY

W3953 Winnebago Heights Road, Malone 920-670-0034

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Ziegler Winery is a family-owned vineyard and winery featuring handcrafted Wisconsin wines in a beautiful, country setting. Founded in 2016, they are located in the accredited AVA Region on the Wisconsin Ledge, named after the prominent Niagara Escarpment. Relax and enjoy a glass of wine on their outdoor patios, or take a stroll through the wooded trails along a winding stream. Ziegler Winery produces 11 coldhearty grape varieties and features over 20 wines, including white, red, and rosé wines. Local craft beers, artisan cheese platters, and homemade chocolates are also served. Wine tastings available and live music year-round!

INVIGORATE YOURSELF

ATTITUDE SPORTS

209 N. Macy Street 920-923-2323

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Attitude Sports is Fond du Lac County’s premier bike and ski shop. Their expert staff will help you with your cycling, skiing, snowshoeing, and outdoor needs. They have rental equipment available and a complete service shop to help you. Their shelves are stocked with the finest brands of bikes, skis, and snowboards, and that’s just a taste. Whether you are Racing the Lake or enjoying the Kettle Moraine, they have the equipment available and service to help you fulfill your Fond du Lac experience!

FOND DU LAC CYCLERY

209 S. Main Street 920-923-3211

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Fond du Lac Cyclery has the right bike for you! Fond du Lac’s premier Trek bike dealer is your one stop shop for all your bicycle and fitness needs. Visit oshkoshcyclery.com for their hours and like them on Facebook. Serving the Fond du Lac area for over 40 years!

JACK’S TEAM SPORTS

179 S. Main Street 920-921-4202

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Jack’s Team Sports is the greater Fond du Lac team supplier of name brand equipment, uniforms and spirit wear, and awards. They enjoy partnering with sport associations, clubs, and teams to provide the best quality experience for players and families. With their Main Street and Fond du Lac Blue Line Center shops, they support individual players, offering the best products and caring evaluation of your specific needs. Be assured—they know their products and have a zeal for discovering the most current, cutting-edge trends related to team sports. They are all sport enthusiasts eager to answer your questions and talk about last night’s game.

24 S. Rolling Meadows Drive 920-921-2344

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Open Road Harley-Davidson is an awardwinning Harley-Davidson dealership featuring motorcycle sales, parts, accessories, service, clothing, and collectibles. They serve passionate Harley-Davidson buyers from all over Wisconsin and beyond! Their team will treat you like family, and they know how to have fun because that’s what your journey should be.

GIFT YOURSELF… OR SOMEONE ELSE

ANNIE’S FOUNTAIN CITY CAFE

72 S. Main Street 920-933-5337

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Annie’s Fountain City Cafe is the coffeehouse/café Downtown where Annie, the owner, knows everyone who comes in, and if she doesn’t, she will by the time you leave. The staff at Annie’s Fountain City Cafe like to think of their place as a community spot with delicious drinks, home-cooked meals, and desserts. They welcome you to sit and visit with your friends; play a boardgame—they love the sound of laughter filling the café; or just enjoy a great coffee drink, homemade dessert, or a yummy lunch. Annie’s also specializes in catering your special event or private party. You will always get the freshest ingredients and made-from-scratch items. Looking for a fun gift or Fond du Lac souvenir? Stop in and check out their selection of new and vintage items. Bringing back the nostalgia from your grandma’s kitchen!

BLUE MARBLE BOTANICALS

28 N. Main Street

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Blue Marble Botanicals apothecary was created with a passion to share plant-based ingredients using unique formulations. They create seasonal, small-batch products using local/wild/organic/sustainable ingredients with a focus on aromatherapy to bring you wellness from the earth. Also in shop, they feature essential oil jewelry, high-quality diffusers, smudge sticks, and crystals along with many aromatherapy products using their own recipes. Owner Bekki Fishelson Kuber is a certified Level 2 Clinical Aromatherapist.

GATHERED ROOTS

15 N. Main Street 920-238-9395

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A gathering of the very best products from the Fond du Lac area, together under one roof, capturing the local area’s heart within the city’s hub. Gathered Roots boasts a sampling of goods that include chocolates,

LIVING LIGHT STUDIO

314 4th Street 920-921-1962

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Come be enchanted and successful in your hunt for artisan-crafted jewelry and gifts at Living Light Studio, a family-owned small business that strives to curate the most unique mix of stained glass, jewelry, and gifts anywhere. For over 40 years, they have been offering the area’s largest selection of sterling silver and mixed metal jewelry. They strive to provide the area gifts of lasting beauty made around the globe at fair prices. From a vast selection of sterling silver and mixed metal jewelry to gorgeous blown and stained glass, beautiful boxes, Nicaraguan art pottery, wonderful windchimes, scarves, crystals, and so many more enchanting treasures, you are sure to find that perfect gift, and while you’re there, why not treat yourself to your new favorite?

LUNAR & LAKE BOOK MARKET

74 S. Main Street 920-933-3669

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Lunar & Lake Book Market is a locally owned and independent bookstore in the heart of Downtown Fond du Lac. The store is the headquarters to Book Art Bookmarks, an elastic bookmark jewelry business servicing more than 150 stores across the country. With a warm and welcoming space for all ages, Lunar & Lake is a community hub for locals and visitors to the Lake Winnebago area. Curated with small-business merchandise, there is always something new. Come in and browse this downtown Book Market & Gift Store. They carry a variety of your favorite books, local author novels, Artmarks, toys, and gifts.

MUD CREEK COFFEE

106 S. Military Road, Stockbridge, Suite A 920-439-1096

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Mud Creek Coffee is that small town coffee shop with a full breakfast and lunch menu you just can’t get enough of. They offer quality coffee and fresh nutritious food in a relaxing stylish environment. They have also added a retail section offering wine, chocolates, natural soaps and lotions, coffee beans, unique cards, and local art.

REACHOUT BOOKS

221 N. Peters Avenue 920-921-5102

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ReachOut Books & Solid Grounds Coffee Shoppe is the area’s premier Christian gift and bookstore serving all of Dodge, Washington, Fond du Lac, and the surrounding Fox Valley since 1982. They are a coffee shop and Christian bookstore featuring special life moments, such as weddings, baptisms, memorials and first communion gifts, artwork, jewelry, music, books, Bibles, cards, baked goods, and more. They also do personalized engraving for Bibles, picture frames, wall art, name plaques, and memorials. Visit ReachOut Books & Solid Grounds Coffee Shoppe for coffee and personalized gifts today.

TWISTED THREAD QUILTING

423 Arlington Avenue 920-933-5131

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Visit this modern quilt shop for fabric, notions, Janome sewing machines, and accessories. We have classes and longarm quilting services along with great gifts for quilters. If you are just beginning or experienced, there’s something for you at Twisted Thread Quilting! Please visit their website for online ordering and class schedules.

WOOLGATHERERS, LLC

35 N. Main Street 920-907-0510

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The Woolgatherer’s is a fiber arts shop and weaving studio with a large selection of looms, spinning wheels, and spindles; yarn; fibers; books; and instruction. Imported table linens and linen fabrics along with textile gift items and a full line of spinning and weaving equipment are available to make fiber pursuits more pleasurable. Individual instruction is also offered.

DECORATE YOUR SPACE

GALLERY & FRAME SHOP

94 S. Main Street 920-921-1144

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For more than 40 years, the family and staff of professional designers at Gallery & Frame Shop have worked with businesses and art lovers providing custom framing, art consultation, color theory, and design services as the Fond du Lac area’s leading full-service picture framing shop and gallery since 1975. Located in the Downtown Arts District, the shop features custom framing, local art, jewelry, photography, pottery, and fair-trade items along with souvenir notecards and photos of the Fond du Lac lighthouse and other local historical landmarks. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Google.

HAENTZE FLORAL COMPANY

658 Fond du Lac Avenue 920-921-0970

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Superb quality flowers and plants, creative designs, value, and professional service have become Haentze Floral’s success. They offer a full range of services, including a full-service, all-season garden center and some of the most unique gifts and home

decorating accessories in the area! Whether it be a magnificent vase arrangement for that special someone, elegant wedding flowers, a romantic bouquet, birthday and anniversary flowers, or a heartfelt sympathy arrangement, let Haentze Floral say it with flowers.

KRISTMAS KRINGLE SHOPPE

1330 S. Main Street I-41 and Exit 95 920-922-3900

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This Midwest favorite has long been a destination for shoppers of all ages! They are an enchanting two-story Bavarian-style shop with an interior resemblance to quaint European shops. They have more than 70 themed trees and gifts for all occasions. Enjoy the sights, sounds, and scents of the holidays all year long! Please call for holiday hours. They are at the corner of S. Main Street and I-41.

SLIGHTLY UNHINGED

N1866 US Highway 151, Chilton 920-841-8763

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Slightly Unhinged is an upcycled furniture, vintage, and delightfully artisan gifts kinda store. 80% unstable and 20% to be determined. The shop is set in a historic school house with an abundance of charm on Highway 151 next to beautiful Lake Winnebago.

N7820 Lakeshore Drive 920-922-8093

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For over 35 years, Stuart’s Landscaping & Garden Center has provided a full range of quality landscape design, installation, and maintenance services. Their garden centers offer one of the broadest ranges of high-quality annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs in the Fond du Lac and Green Lake areas. They work directly with their clients to ensure that they will be satisfied with the results, whether that is designing a complete landscape plan, assisting homeowners with a do-it-yourself plan, planting a summer annual container, or finding that special plant to add the right touch to your landscape.

UBUNTU ART SPACE

52 E. Division Street 920-948-7965

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This Fond du Lac art gallery and gift shop features a changing selection of art, including cards and souvenirs from local Wisconsin artists. The store carries unique affordable art ideal for gift giving as well as for decorating your home or office. Ubuntu (oo BOON too) is the concept that what we do affects each other, and that interconnection makes us become who we are. Each artist has their own unique style, and together they make up Ubuntu

WOOD SAMPLER

116 S. Main Street 920-926-9663

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The Wood Sampler offers a large variety of real wood furniture for all rooms in the home, including dining, living, bedroom, office, kitchen, and more! The American-made/ Amish furniture is available in many styles, sizes, woods, and finishes. Furniture items can be purchased from in-stock or custom ordered (they deliver). Many home decor items are available.

WOOD’S FLORAL & GIFTS

36 N. Main Street 920-922-6780

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Wood’s Floral & Gifts is an award-winning gift and floral shop located in Downtown Fond du Lac. Step inside and you’ll find a unique collection of home decor and gift items that will inspire those hard-to-find gifts (and perhaps a gift for yourself, too)! They also carry a large array of sympathy gifts for indoor and outdoor use. They look forward to sharing their treasures with you!

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