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Summer time fun
Every summer I got to listen to the chimed voices of my kids saying, “I’m bored” and “what can we do” about a week into their break. I have three kids ranging in age from 14 to 21 years now, so they amuse themselves quite well… most of the time. When the were much younger though it was a bit of a task to find something, we could all do and enjoy together. We all loved going to the movies, so I thought why not start having movie nights under the stars in our backyard! A summer tradition was born. We have even gone so far as to take a flat screen camping to have movie night at the campground. We were quite the hit with all the other kids camping too. I still love movies and find them a great escape from everyday and I watch movies even if they are (poorly) dubbed or with subtitles. If it’s a good story I want to watch it. Maybe this is the summer you start a movie under the star’s tradition of your own. Here are some of the movies & movie series the kids and I enjoy while sitting under the stars.
The buzzz around the building
As spring winds down and summer approaches, for many there is a last rush to finish spring clean-up duties. The same is true for our beekeeping teams across Oxford Properties locations, as they busily finish the delicate task of splitting hives. Splitting hives is an arduous chore that takes place in spring to divide hives that are becoming slightly crowded. In the same way that a human family with many children might consider moving out of a small house, a bee colony that is filling their hive space may consider swarming and moving on to somewhere more suitable for their colony size. Our beekeepers account for this by removing part of the hive to create a new colony. The old hive gets to continue its work, while the new one gets to build a new hive with some stellar new real estate and a new queen. One crowded hive will morph into two working hives. More hives will eventually mean more honey—and that makes life even sweeter! The photograph below shows our bee yard where hives are being split.
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No-bake summer desserts
Camille Arcese, better known as Cami Cooks, is a life-long foodie who’s travelled the world discovering dishes and flavours from across cultures and has even studied at Paris’s prestigious Cordon Bleu culinary school.
How to bake the perfect carrot cake with Cami Cooks
Camille Arcese, better known as Cami Cooks, is a life-long foodie who’s loved experimenting in the kitchen and trying out new culinary endeavours since a young age. Travelling and living abroad fed her love of food, allowing her to experience dishes and flavours from across the world, which she would recreate for her friends.
Discover the 7 pillars of joyous health with
Joy McCarthy
Joy McCarthy is a holistic nutritionist and founder of Joyous Health, an award-winning website with the simple mission of helping people discover that simple, healthy living is the key to a life lived with joy.
Joy joined us in July to talk about her 7 Pillars of Joyous Health. Joy cuts through the cluttered and confusing narrative created by the endless barrage of health trends, fad diets, and headline-worthy research to deliver her 7 pillars. These are 7 simple and doable strategies that will allow you to discover how amazing your body was designed to feel.
Discover the 7 pillars of joyous health with
Joy McCarthy
Joy McCarthy is a holistic nutritionist and founder of Joyous Health, an award-winning website with the simple mission of helping people discover that simple, healthy living is the key to a life lived with joy.
Joy joined us in July to talk about her 7 Pillars of Joyous Health. Joy cuts through the cluttered and confusing narrative created by the endless barrage of health trends, fad diets, and headline-worthy research to deliver her 7 pillars. These are 7 simple and doable strategies that will allow you to discover how amazing your body was designed to feel.
Live from LEVEL with
Jiana
LEVEL by Oxford Properties is an exclusive wellness club located at Oxford Properties HQ in central Toronto. LEVEL’s mission is to enrich members’ physical and mental wellbeing through classes in yoga, Muay Thai and HIIT. To bring this to the wider Oxford community, instructor Jiana hosted a virtual HIIT session for us.
Live from LEVEL with
Jiana
LEVEL by Oxford Properties is an exclusive wellness club located at Oxford Properties HQ in central Toronto. LEVEL’s mission is to enrich members’ physical and mental wellbeing through classes in yoga, Muay Thai and HIIT. To bring this to the wider Oxford community, instructor Jiana hosted a virtual HIIT session for us.
Middle Eastern Eats with
Shahir Massoud & Pay Chen
To celebrate International Picnic Day, we were joined by chef and TV host, Shahir Massoud, where he prepared three Middle-Eastern-inspired picnic dishes. Taken from his new book, Eat Habibi Eat, Shahir used these recipes to teach us about different spices and demystify Middle Eastern cuisine. Presenting the live event was TV host and Toronto-based food writer Pay Chen, who’s appeared on CBC, CTV, and the Food Network.
Middle Eastern Eats with
Shahir Massoud & Pay Chen
To celebrate International Picnic Day, we were joined by chef and TV host, Shahir Massoud, where he prepared three Middle-Eastern-inspired picnic dishes. Taken from his new book, Eat Habibi Eat, Shahir used these recipes to teach us about different spices and demystify Middle Eastern cuisine. Presenting the live event was TV host and Toronto-based food writer Pay Chen, who’s appeared on CBC, CTV, and the Food Network.
Live from LEVEL with
Matthew Bonas
LEVEL by Oxford Properties is an exclusive wellness club located at Oxford Properties HQ in central Toronto. LEVEL’s mission is to enrich members’ physical and mental wellbeing through classes in yoga, Muay Thai and HIIT. To bring this to the wider Oxford community, manager and instructor Matthew Bonas hosted a virtual yoga session for us.
Live from LEVEL with
Matthew Bonas
LEVEL by Oxford Properties is an exclusive wellness club located at Oxford Properties HQ in central Toronto. LEVEL’s mission is to enrich members’ physical and mental wellbeing through classes in yoga, Muay Thai and HIIT. To bring this to the wider Oxford community, manager and instructor Matthew Bonas hosted a virtual yoga session for us.
Frankie Flowers,
The Power of Plants
During May we were joined by Frankie Flowers, Canada’s most popular gardening expert! A best-selling author, three-time recipient of Landscape Ontario’s Garden Communicator of the Year Award, and celebrated landscape designer, Frankie is known for combining practical gardening advice with humour and passion.
During the live event, Frankie talked to us about how plants benefit our health and which ones can help boost happiness and well-being. From the pages of his best-selling book, Power Plants, Frankie gave us his pro tips on how to grow and harvest your plants.
Frankie Flowers,
The Power of Plants
During May we were joined by Frankie Flowers, Canada’s most popular gardening expert! A best-selling author, three-time recipient of Landscape Ontario’s Garden Communicator of the Year Award, and celebrated landscape designer, Frankie is known for combining practical gardening advice with humour and passion.
During the live event, Frankie talked to us about how plants benefit our health and which ones can help boost happiness and well-being. From the pages of his best-selling book, Power Plants, Frankie gave us his pro tips on how to grow and harvest your plants.
Discover the World of Bees
with Angela Glanzmann and Andie Langemeyer
As many of you know, Oxford offices across Canada have their own beehives along with beekeepers that help them thrive. The hives are managed by our partners Alvéole who install and care for beehives in many urban locations in order to educate, reconnect city-dwellers with nature, raise ecological awareness, and help build more sustainable cities.
To mark Earth Day on April 22, we organized a live event led by two of our beekeepers, Angela and Andie. The event included a 30-minute workshop and a live Q&A.
Discover the World of Bees
with Angela Glanzmann and Andie Langemeyer
As many of you know, Oxford offices across Canada have their own beehives along with beekeepers that help them thrive. The hives are managed by our partners Alvéole who install and care for beehives in many urban locations in order to educate, reconnect city-dwellers with nature, raise ecological awareness, and help build more sustainable cities.
To mark Earth Day on April 22, we organized a live event led by two of our beekeepers, Angela and Andie. The event included a 30-minute workshop and a live Q&A.
Bob Blumer,
Gastronaut, artist and eight time Guinness World Record holder, Bob Blumer is the creator and
host of the television series’ Surreal Gourmet and Glutton for Punishment, and a producer and
host of World’s Weirdest Restaurants. His shows air in over twenty countries worldwide.
During the live, Bob showed us how to make his creamy carbonara with double pancetta – if you want to follow along at home, you can find the recipe below.
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 8 ounces thick-sliced pancetta or thick-sliced bacon, cut into ¼ inch pieces
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tsp pepper
- ¼ tsp chilli flakes
- 1 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano (about 4 ounces) + extra for finishing
- ½ cup freshly grated pecorino (about 2 ounces)
- 1 best available egg + 3 egg yolks
- Salt
- 1 pound spaghetti
- 1 cup chopped parsley
Bob Blumer,
Chef, Food Network host and eight time Guinness World Record holder.
Gastronaut, artist and eight time Guinness World Record holder, Bob Blumer is the creator and
host of the television series’ Surreal Gourmet and Glutton for Punishment, and a producer and
host of World’s Weirdest Restaurants. His shows air in over twenty countries worldwide.
During the live, Bob showed us how to make his creamy carbonara with double pancetta – if you want to follow along at home, you can find the recipe below.
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 8 ounces thick-sliced pancetta or thick-sliced bacon, cut into ¼ inch pieces
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tsp pepper
- ¼ tsp chilli flakes
- 1 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano (about 4 ounces) + extra for finishing
- ½ cup freshly grated pecorino (about 2 ounces)
- 1 best available egg + 3 egg yolks
- Salt
- 1 pound spaghetti
- 1 cup chopped parsley
Charles Clark,
The creator of the Thrive Planner and the Thrive Tribe Podcast, is an expert in habit improvement, discovering purpose, vision creating, and goal setting. After he became the 6th fastest man in the world, a devastating injury left him searching for his identity. Charles developed techniques that brought clarity and purpose to his life while massively boosting his confidence.
Charles’ modern transformation strategies, empowering presentations, and high-performance mindset hacks have made him a sought-after speaker and coach for leading organizations, such as Nike, Raymond James Financial, Frontier Communications, iHeart Radio, the US Army, and Florida State University.
Charles Clark
The creator of the Thrive Planner and the Thrive Tribe Podcast, is an expert in habit improvement, discovering purpose, vision creating, and goal setting. After he became the 6th fastest man in the world, a devastating injury left him searching for his identity. Charles developed techniques that brought clarity and purpose to his life while massively boosting his confidence.
Charles’ modern transformation strategies, empowering presentations, and high-performance mindset hacks have made him a sought-after speaker and coach for leading organizations, such as Nike, Raymond James Financial, Frontier Communications, iHeart Radio, the US Army, and Florida State University.
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