by Noel | Oct 19, 2008 | CobraHead, Gardening
Except for the value of the labor you put into making it, compost can cost nothing. I detailed my composting method last December here. Today I cleaned up the compost I had made last fall. I have a nice large pile shown in the picture. I’ll definitely have enough to put more than a couple buckets into each of my beds. I had neglected the pile after I made it last fall, but getting it into shape was quite easy. I had to pull out quack grass, burdock and...
by Noel | Aug 18, 2008 | CobraHead, Events, Gardening
That’s Irene Bender, the event coordinator for the Minnesota Garlic Festival , held last Saturday at the Wright County Fairgrounds in Howard Lake, Minnesota. Nice Hat! The garlic festival is a little show featuring about a dozen small farmers offering over 100 varieties of garlic. Garlic was for sale, but so were other homegrown foods and locally produced goods. Garlic flavored food was in abundance including garlic brats, garlic potatoes, pickled garlic,...
by Noel | Aug 8, 2008 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Events, Gardening
In our ongoing quest to make the CobraHead Weeder famous, we occasionally try new trade show venues. Since I thought there had to be a connection between farming and gardening, we exhibited at a show in Minnesota this week called Farmfest. The show organizers had invited us out as a “green” vendor and we were in a tent with others promoting such things as organic farming, sustainable agriculture, energy issues and land conservation. While I found the...
by Noel | Jul 28, 2008 | CobraHead, Events
This weekend, Judy and I were vendors at the Kickapoo Country Fair in La Farge, Wisconsin: Kickapoo Country Fair. The fair is in its fifth year and is hosted on the grounds of Organic Valley’s headquarters. Organic Valley is the farmer’s cooperative that has been at the forefront of the organic movement in the United States. This part of Wisconsin, The Kickapoo River Valley, is part of a large portion of southwestern Wisconsin knows as the driftless...
by Noel | Apr 28, 2008 | CobraHead, Gardening
I usually clean out my asparagus bed in February. I don’t trim back the mature fronds in the fall as a lot of gardeners do, because I read that leaving them to grow until spring gives more energy to the roots, This year, because we didn’t get our typical February warm spell, the job did not get done. We had heavy snow cover until just a few weeks ago, and because of a hectic weekend show schedule, yesterday was my first real day in the garden. It was a...
by Anneliese | Apr 4, 2008 | CobraHead, Events
Well, I’m a little bit embarrassed that I haven’t written any blog entries lately, but I think I can get away with using the “I’ve been busy” excuse. It’s true! I have! We all have! Since early February, CobraHead has had an event nearly every weekend. Garden show season started off with a bang for us at the Wisconsin Public Television Garden Expo in Madison. The next weekend, Geoff and I were off to Virginia Beach for the...
