by Noel | Feb 27, 2023 | CobraHead, Events, Garden Shows, Garden Tools, Gardening
Our big gardening experience for the month of February, other than starting onion seeds, is exhibiting CobraHead tools at the PBS Wisconsin Garden & Landscape Show in Madison. Only 20 miles from home, it’s always been our favorite show. Garden Expo has earned a reputation as one of the best community-oriented gardening shows in the country. it has a complete weekend college of gardening education: classes, seminars, and demonstrations for all levels of...
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 Noel | Jul 29, 2012 | CobraHead, Events
This is an absolutely un-retouched picture of Judy lifting a cow over her head. Now you know why I’m so meek and mild mannered. I wouldn’t dare step out of line when flipping a cow around is so easy for her. She could send me to the moon. The picture is courtesy of Organic Valley, the Farmer’s Cooperative headquartered in La Farge, Wisconsin, where Judy and I were vendors for CobraHead at the annual Kickapoo Country Fair on Saturday....
by Noel | Jun 4, 2012 | CobraHead, Events, Gardening
This weekend Judy and I were vendors at the Klehm Arboretum Garden Fair. This was our seventh year at the event now in it’s 19th year. Rockford is just under 70 miles from home. If you don’t know Rockford, it’s the second biggest population area in Illinois outside the Chicago metro area. Rockford used to be an industrial dynamo, but like a lot of Midwestern towns, heavy manufacturing went bust, and for a while Rockford suffered some very...
by Geoff | May 24, 2012 | Events, Gardening
Back from the Garden Blogger’s Fling in Asheville, North Carolina; great gardens in a beautiful setting. I saw way too much to try and put into one overview, so I’m going to highlight ideas that I got from several of the places that inspired me in a short series of posts. Wamboldtopia is the creation of Damaris and Ricki Pierce. Besides being gardeners, Damaris is an artist, artoflife.com and Ricki a stone mason, RockPirate.com. Their entire garden impressed...
by Geoff | Nov 9, 2011 | CobraHead, Events, Gardening
Over the past couple of years Noel has been developing and refining his presentations on organic raised-bed gardening. It’s about time. After thirty years of growing lots of good food, he has learned a thing or two. Below is the press release that we have put out touting his abilities. Please feel free to share this with any groups that would want to hear Noel speak. CobraHead’s Noel Valdes Speaks on Open Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening Cambridge, WI –...