by Anneliese | Jan 27, 2019 | CobraHead, Events, Gardening
CobraHead is pleased to partner with Shawna Coronado during her Garden Lady Wellness Tour! Shawna is moving across the country from Illinois to Arizona, and she’s decided to turn her road trip into a speaking tour with 30 stops along the way. Beginning on January 28 in Lisle, IL and ending March 2 in Superior, AZ, Shawna will travel south and then west, stopping at botanical gardens, arboretums, and garden centers. At each stop, she will give away prize...
by Anneliese | Mar 29, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes
Sometimes you just want pizza. Okay, most of the time I just want pizza. So when Judy (a.k.a. “Mom”) told me on Monday that she was thinking of making pizza for lunch on Tuesday, I was excited to hear it. She planned on using ingredients left over from last year’s harvest, plus a few things we had on hand in the pantry. Then Mom told me she was going to use some frozen naan for the crusts. Now, there’s nothing wrong with naan pizza crusts...
by Anneliese | Jun 29, 2017 | CobraHead, Farming, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
Hi, everyone. Anneliese here. I’m back! Did you miss me? After four years away from CobraHead, I’ve returned to the family business, and I couldn’t be happier about it. One of my resumed responsibilities is representing CobraHead at events like the Garden Bloggers Fling. Geoff and I attended the very first Fling in Austin, TX in 2008, and I continued attending every year until 2012. The garden bloggers who attend the Fling are invariably a...
by Anneliese | Dec 12, 2012 | CobraHead
I recently had the privilege of spending the month of November in Oaxaca, Mexico. I was there to work on improving my Spanish, but I also had the opportunity to do a bit of cultural exploration. Right in the heart of the city is the Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca (Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca). The garden is located on the grounds of a former Dominican monastery, but for many years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the site was used for military...
by Anneliese | Oct 19, 2012 | Recipes
It’s not often that I feel the need to shout to the world how great a product is, but I’ve wanted to do just that about Reallygoods for quite some time. I first encountered Reallygoods about a year and a half ago when Noel and I were on a road trip through central Wisconsin. Our longtime family friends, Chris and Steve McDiarmid, were the proprietors of a food and wine shop in the village of Coloma, and we decided we should take a quick break from our travels to...
