From never farming to living the farm life (The Hello Farmlife Podcast | S1, EP1)
In this episode, Antonio and Janice introduce what The Hello Farm Life Podcast is all about and what listeners can expect from Season 1. They also share their stories of how they each went from living the city to farm life and ended up connecting on Cavaleiro Farm.
What Do Farmers Do During the Winter?: 5 Steps for How to Prepare for Your Best Growing Season
How can farmers be confident about the abundance of their harvest throughout the year especially during the winter season? Here are five insightful tips!
5 Steps to Going Local with Your Food
If you’re trying to go more local, buying fancy packaging with labels won’t be what fulfills the connection you’re trying to find to your food. You need to change up your strategy for going local, and invest your time and some money to get there. It’s worth the effort to go local, as you’ll eat produce that tastes better; know where your food comes from; and reap the nutritious rewards of eating fresh, local food.
One Leaf at a Time: How to Eat More Veggies Without Needing to Learn New Recipes
Are you still struggling to eat healthy local food? Do you buy a bunch of organic veggies, only to have them go bad because you don’t know how to cook them? No matter how much we want to start a healthy green diet, many of us find it challenging to make it a routine. This […]
Gardening in Ontario Guide
Welcome to your resource guide for gardening in Ontario. I put this together because every year friends of Cavaleiro Farm ask me questions about their garden. This year, with COVID-19, gardening seems more important than ever, so I thought I’d try to help more people. Gardens provide us with fresh food, get us outside in […]
Table to Farm (Video)
Enjoy our short video “Table to Farm: The Cavaleiro Way.” Here, we show how we prevent food waste by using restaurant kitchen scraps for animal food and cardboard boxes for planting!
Maravillas Maravillosas
Farm Poetry Hannah Atkinson Renglich maravillas maravillosas hannah atkinson renglich as the girasol does its namesake work of turning to the sun we do the opposite shielding ourselves with feathered straw hats and taking up hoes and rakes to break the twitchgrass crowding out beds formerly laden with garlic on a hot September morning […]
Shepherdess at Work
The farm job that has always resonated with me the most is taking care of the sheep. Maybe it’s that nurturing instinct in me. Or perhaps it’s because I value personal growth, and you can’t not grow as a person after working with sheep for several months. Either way, the sheep have become my family, […]
September on Cavaleiro Farm
Farm time passes by in an interesting way. Days run out quickly, yet once the month ends the beginning of it seems like it happened such a long time ago. What I definitely remember about this month is that it was really hot. Many September days felt as though we were in July again—the only […]
Fencing Workday With My Friends
Guest post by Andre Good fencing is a feature of functional importance on any farm, as it lays down key infrastructure that keeps livestock out of the fields where they don’t belong and in the pastures where they do belong. At Cavaleiro Farm, there was already some existing fence that had likely been laid down […]