by Noelle Bertram | Apr 8, 2021 | Home & Garden, Inspiration, North America, United States
Guide to the “Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival!” If you live in Portland, Oregon, one of the absolute greatest things you can do in April is to celebrate the start of spring at the iconic “Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm,” located in Woodburn. Over 100,000...
by Noelle Bertram | Mar 15, 2021 | Home & Garden, Inspiration
How to Create a French Country Garden Can you create a French country garden where you live?? In most parts of the United States, the answer is: yes. I live in the Pacific Northwest, & while a full-on French country garden isn’t possible for me, I’ve...
by Noelle Bertram | Feb 9, 2021 | Home & Garden, Pet-Friendly Travel
How to Stop Your Dog from Peeing on the Lawn! This may be the shortest post I’ve ever written: but I had to share, because I FINALLY found out how to stop my puppy from peeing on my brand-new lawn & ruining it with yellow spots! If only I’d known this...
by Noelle Bertram | Nov 25, 2020 | Home & Garden, Inspiration, Natural Health
Best Plants to Improve Indoor Air QualityWith winter nearly here & almost all of us spending more time at home, here’s a question: do indoor plants actually improve our indoor air quality? The somewhat unfortunate short answer is, no. Unless you’ve...
by Noelle Bertram | Sep 8, 2020 | Home & Garden, Inspiration, Inspiring Women
How to Create a Joanna Gaines-Worthy Garden “Fixer Upper” is one of my favorite TV shows! My niece & nephew were the first ones to tell me about it; they would talk about this “Joanna Gaines” character, & since I hadn’t seen...
by Noelle Bertram | May 15, 2020 | Home & Garden, Natural Health
Why NOW is the Time to Join Your Local CSA After taking my puppy out yesterday at 5AM, I checked the NY Times Daily Briefing, & came across this disturbing article regarding the breakdown of our food supply due to COVID-19, & how thousands of pigs & cattle...