Welcome to Episode 23 of the podcast! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! This week’s episode is a repeat of Episode 10, originally released on September 26, 2018. The show was recorded in southern Alberta at the beautiful Flint Rock Ranch, home of Mitchell Bros. Beef. The ranch is located on 1,000 acres of segmented pasture land. I am joined on the show by Kevin Mitchell from Mitchell Bros. Beef, Chef Barb Thomas and Kimberly Cornish. Mitchell Bros. Beef raises humanely & ethically raised beef that is entirely grass fed and grass finished. The family has been raising cattle in Southern Alberta for over 60 years. Today, Mitchell Bros. is owned and operated by Philip and Bette Mitchell along with their four sons. The family recently made the move to a grass finished, antibiotic and hormone free herd. The cattle eat their natural diet of prairie grass and pure spring water and live a stress free life roaming and grazing the top quality native fescue. You can find them online at www.mitchellbrosbeef.com, on Instagram @mitchellbrosbeef and on Twitter @mitchellbrobeef. You can buy Mitchell Bros. Beef on Saturdays in Calgary at the cSPACE Market, 1721 29 Avenue SW. More info online at www.farmersmakersmarket.ca. Their meat is also available at Bite Grocer & Eatery, 1023 9 Avenue SE in Calgary, www.biteyyc.com. Chef Barb Thomas is a Certified Holistic Nutritional Practitioner, an instructor at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, speaker and co-author of Go Goddess! From Depleted to Divine. She is also the chef at Flint Rock Ranch and provides tips and guidance for Mitchell Bros. Beef customers on how to cook grass fed beef to maximize the flavour of the beef. You can follow Barb on Twitter and Instagram @realfoodgoddess and online at www.love2eat.ca. Food Water Wellness Foundation works with farmers, ranchers and researchers to understand how soil can be used to mitigate climate change, drought and flood, increase biodiversity and, most importantly, produce healthy food. Kimberly Cornish is the director of Food Water Wellness and has worked with the Mitchell family at Flint Rock Ranch. The fundraising event Rootstock supports the foundation. Check them out online at www.foodwaterwellness.org, and on Instagram @foodwaterwellness. During the podcast, I mention the book Genius Foods by Max Lugavere. Learn more about the book and Max and www.maxlugavere.com and find the book at your favourite bookseller. Check out the Alberta BBQ Trail at www.albertabbqtrail.ca and follow on Twitter @bbq_trail or Instagram at albertabbqtrail. The restaurants participating in the Alberta BBQ Trail are Big Sky BBQ Pit, Olde Smokey’s BBQ Shack, Belle Southern Kitchen + Bar, Big T’s Barbecue & Smokehouse, Paddy’s Barbecue a & Brewery and Rocky Mountain BBQ Catering. Please check them out and use the hashtag #albertabbqtrail on your social media posts. All music on The Eat More Barbecue podcast has been graciously provided by Alan Horabin. Eat More Barbecue can be found at www.eatmorebarbecue.ca, on Facebook & Instagram at eat_more_barbecue and on Twitter @eatmorebarbecue. Thanks for listening. Please subscribe, rate and review. This podcast is an EatMoreBarbecue production.