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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
BRONXTOBARN.COM: Tag Archive for grassfed beef

Shared challenge: growing great beef in winter

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

Podcast: Kit Pharo rebuilds grass-fed genetics into beef cattle

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 6/28/2011 10:15 PM | Add Comment

Podcast: VA rancher goes to 100% grass for better health, taste, profitability & life

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 6/5/2011 10:01 PM | Add Comment

44 deg, wet and windy. 50 bushes and trees planted.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 5/14/2011 8:43 PM | Add Comment

Pls join me June 4, Mill City Farmers Market. Our farm's beef will be demo'd !!!!

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 5/10/2011 7:51 AM | Add Comment

Podcast: Grass Fed Cattle Co. for Twin Cities-sized freezers

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 5/1/2011 9:38 PM | Add Comment

Podcast: Searching for local farmers? You a farmer seeking local customers? Here's the Local Dirt.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 4/19/2011 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Photo: 1,000-lbs rusty treasure. Snow.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 4/17/2011 1:09 PM | Add Comment

Podcast: Farmer, cookbook author, Shannon Hayes-why grass-fed is sooo great.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 4/6/2011 7:46 PM | Add Comment

Videos. Spring=mud/muck/gumbo/fango, and new calves

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 4/3/2011 9:53 AM | Add Comment

Britta. Twins? Life and death. Video. Photo.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 3/30/2011 8:16 AM | Add Comment

South Bronx skills help on the farm today. What's your story?

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 3/20/2011 1:13 PM | Add Comment

Thanks for notes fr US Navy, NY, Canada and more

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 2/21/2011 10:45 AM | Add Comment

Coyote in the hay.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 12/22/2010 9:07 AM | Add Comment

Farming by icy moonlight.

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

Testicles in the truck, I drove home.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 12/5/2010 1:34 PM | Add Comment

We mark our first year on Bull Brook Keep!

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 12/3/2010 10:43 PM | Add Comment

Chilly update: Big hole till spring

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 11/22/2010 10:00 PM | Add Comment

Half-foot of snow arrives overnight.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 11/17/2010 11:08 PM | Add Comment

Video: Cows run, stop, are puzzled by first hay paddock.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 11/7/2010 9:43 PM | Add Comment

News: We've moved - another big step in our farming journey.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 11/1/2010 7:39 PM | Add Comment

Where you can go for locally-produced, tasty, highly nutritious food - some quick links.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 6/16/2010 12:18 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

First calf born Easter Sunday - but will it survive? MORE fencing.

Posted by Sylvia Burgos at 4/2/2010 2:39 PM | Add Comment