Nature is all cycles and there is no such thing as waste. Farms are the best place for closing the loop on food.
Wildcrafting is the practice of harvesting plants and herbs from the wild for food or medicinal uses. However, most of us nowadays just buy our food and medicine from a store, and wildcrafting seems to have been forgotten. Or there might be some fear around picking plants: Is it poisonous? Will it taste really terrible?
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!
On Earth Day 2016, our Maestro Antonio spent the day at the Toronto Zoo with Malaz from Partners in Project Green and a whole lot of panda bamboo. Malaz was able to wrestle some bamboo from the pandas, creating a nice pile just outside the panda exhibit gate to attract passerby’s attention. Antonio reports: “We had a…
Materials Contributed For Up-Cycling Churrasquira Red Rooster restaurants are tied in closely with Cavaleiro Farm, and we are working hard to make stronger connections in the coming seasons. Currently, the restaurant diverts thousands of pounds of cardboard yearly from the landfill to the farm instead. We also compost Red Rooster’s food scraps, which eventually help…