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 […]
Favourite No-Till Gardening
I’ve been reflecting on past experiments with no-till gardening, like in the garden east of the house, while also researching different styles on YouTube. In the end, I liked this video the most and found her experience to be closest to mine. A video like this could be used to train new people on this […]
Solar Bucket Hack-a-thon Event
Cavaleiro Farm, in partnership with the Food Innovation Hub at Ryerson University, is hosting a Solar Bucket Hack-a-thon event from February 3rd to 5th, 2017. The event is related to food, farming, and clean energy technology. This is going to be a fun event where people from diverse backgrounds will share their perspectives and create […]
World Crops Learning Gardens Workshop at Cavaleiro Farm
Growers Sharing Knowledge to Improve Production Cavaleiro Farm aims to help communities in the GTA access culturally-appropriate food. We want to do this by finding cultivators (farmers) and community networkers. Our farmer incubator provides all the tools a New Canadian would require to grow food for their niche community. For The World Crops Learning Gardens […]
Bee Hives That Work With Nature
For anyone who might not know, bees have had it tough around the world with Varroa mites killing colonies. There’s more to share about how important bees are to our food, and how serious a threat this is. But for now, I’m just super excited about a potential solution that works with the nature of the […]
Foggy River Farm Design
At Cavaleiro Farm, we believe there’s a little bit of the farmer in everyone. But we also believe that farming is a skill that can be taught and learned. Ecologically-responsible farming, in particular, requires expert knowledge honed through years if not decades of experience. That’s one reason we have worked with Foggy River Farm Design. […]
The Toronto Zoo’s Bamboo Challenge: Up-cycling Waste Into Food
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 […]
Social Permaculture Principles
Social permaculture should be more more explicitly discussed by designers and permaculturalists. From my experience, the challenge to sustainable food systems is not the physical goods, such as food, energy, water, etc. Rather, it’s more about how we as people learn to create these systems. Social permaculture is a framework for developing the skills and […]