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I'm Sylvia Burgos Toftness, a baby boomer who traveled from the Bronx to Minnesota yrs ago to be a TV reporter. In communications since then, I've worked with producers and good-food advocates in several states. My husband David and I are now developing Bull Brook Keep - 70 acres devoted to sustainable grass-fed beef and, eventually, pastured poultry.

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  1. Update&Photos: Ladies and gentlemen - start your seedlings!
    Monday, March 12, 2012
  2. Podcast: FERN's Sam Fromartz - the how's & why's of food investigative journalism
    Monday, March 05, 2012
  3. Listen in: Sat., March 3, 8:30-9AM CT - Reporters investigate food, politics, environment
    Friday, March 02, 2012
  4. Shared challenge: growing great beef in winter
    Saturday, February 25, 2012
  5. Wanna farm? Maybe start with chickens!
    Friday, February 24, 2012
  6. It's the grass, man
    Friday, February 24, 2012
  7. And the winner is...
    Friday, February 24, 2012
  8. Women. Young. Older. Farmers. Everywhere.
    Thursday, February 23, 2012
  9. Podcast: Rodale 30-yr field trial shows organic farming outperforms conventional, chemical ag system
    Monday, February 20, 2012
  10. Podcast: Tomatoland author, Barry Estabrook. Winter tomato - taste, nutrition and slavery
    Friday, February 17, 2012

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  1. Andrea on Update&Photos: Ladies and gentlemen - start your seedlings!
    3/12/2012
  2. Sylvia Burgos on Podcast: Rodale 30-yr field trial shows organic farming outperforms conventional, chemical ag system
    2/24/2012
  3. Trevor Lockwood on Podcast: Rodale 30-yr field trial shows organic farming outperforms conventional, chemical ag system
    2/22/2012
  4. Irene on Podcast: Rodale 30-yr field trial shows organic farming outperforms conventional, chemical ag system
    2/20/2012
  5. Sylvia Burgos on Update: waiting for 7 babies
    2/15/2012
  6. MARY NELSON on Update: waiting for 7 babies
    2/14/2012
  7. Kay on Podcast: Gearld Fry on human health and recapturing grass-fed beef genetics
    1/11/2012
  8. Debbie G on Help name the first calf! Read on.
    3/1/2011
  9. Sylvia Burgos on Podcast: Cody Holmes on ranching full time in 3 hours a day. Update: cows at 35-below zero
    2/27/2011
  10. Julie Shelton on Podcast: Cody Holmes on ranching full time in 3 hours a day. Update: cows at 35-below zero
    2/26/2011
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Shared challenge: growing great beef in winter

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 2/25/2012 9:11 AM | Add Comment

Podcast: Gearld Fry on human health and recapturing grass-fed beef genetics

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 1/11/2012 12:22 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

A wet nose

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 12/25/2011 10:23 PM | Add Comment

Slide show: Can Bronx baby boomer move a hay bale without dropping?

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 7/17/2011 8:50 PM | Add Comment

Getting Britta betta. Farm update.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 2/20/2011 4:03 PM | Add Comment

A "D" in moving hay.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 1/15/2011 8:52 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Farming by icy moonlight.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 12/21/2010 11:59 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Lotsa rain. Wet hay sits in the field. Let's talk energy.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 6/14/2010 7:51 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Calf does limbo under a six-inch fence. Making out like Heidi with a cow bell.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 4/27/2010 11:58 AM | Add Comment