by Anneliese | Nov 14, 2023 | CobraHead
Friends of CobraHead will know that we are avid supporters of community gardens and educational gardening projects. And now, we are proud to be a sponsor of the 2024 KidsGardening.org Youth Garden Grant! This year, fifty youth garden programs will be awarded $500 in funding and a collection of gardening supplies for their youth garden program. The application period is open through December 15, 2023. Beginning with 50 awards in 1982, KidsGardening’s Youth...
by Anneliese | Sep 28, 2023 | CobraHead
Here’s something a little bit different for the blog! Last month, one of our eagle-eyed CobraHead fans forwarded us a news article about a significant fossil find in Maryland. Entomologist and paleontology department volunteer at Calvert Marine Museum Emily Bzdyk was fossil hunting on a beach on the Chesapeake Bay when she spotted what turned out to be a 15 million-year-old dolphin skull fossil. And while we think that story is cool enough on its own, we...
by Anneliese | Jan 31, 2023 | CobraHead
Wow, we had a pretty exciting visit from U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin earlier this month! Did you know that when consumers buy items online, websites are not required to display the country of origin for the product being sold because our labeling laws were written before online shopping existed? Senator Baldwin’s bipartisan-sponsored COOL Online Act proposes to update our country of origin labeling laws so online shoppers can know where the products...
by Anneliese | Dec 11, 2020 | CobraHead
Our office downtown You may not realize it, but for much of CobraHead’s existence, we ran the entire operation out of Noel and Judy’s basement, garage, barn, and, yes, even their dining room. It certainly saved us money on monthly expenses, but it wasn’t exactly conducive to, you know, living in an actual house. Andy with some of our inventory So, two years ago we finally rented the ground floor office space in a building in downtown Cambridge,...
by Anneliese | Mar 18, 2020 | CobraHead, Recipes
Several months ago I found myself housebound due to illness. I started feeling better after a while, but I still wasn’t really feeling up for leaving the house. I needed something to do with my time. Maybe baking? I’d heard about no-knead bread years ago, but I truly didn’t believe it was as easy as the recipe claimed it was. Since I now had extra time on my hands, I figured I’d give it a go. Spoiler: it was as easy as the recipe said, and...
