Hey everyone, Mitchell here. Before we start the show, a huge thank you to the Walton Family Foundation.

Thanks for the continued support this season.

Hey, everyone, welcome back to the fieldwork podcast. I'm Mitchell Hora. Today on the podcast, I am actually out visiting Brad Buchanan a little field trip that we've got going here.

Brad is a cattle rancher from Colorado.

And last year, last August is when we recorded this, I trekked out to Colorado.

I was out there anyway and went to go visit Brad at his place in the high plains just east of Denver. Brad is a really interesting guy.

He's an architect. He's a former planner for the city of Denver and now he's a rancher.

Brad's got about 2,000 head of grass fed cattle that he's raising, slaughtering, and selling

direct to consumer in the Denver and surrounding areas. The name of Brad's

outfit is the Flying B-Bbar Ranch. Everyone, I hope you'll really enjoy today's conversation.

Brad, thanks a ton for having us out today. Really excited to learn about your ranch and your first-generation

ranch here. Introduce yourself and explain

to us where are we at today and what are we going to learn. You bet. I'm Brad Buchanan. I'm one of the

owners and operators here at Flying B-Barr Ranch. We raise grass-fed, grass-finished cattle. We

sell, raise them from from calf to slaughter and we have a direct to consumer

online store operation that we have developed from scratch, from from not knowing much at

all about farming and ranching to 15 years later having an operation that's up and running

and is a going concern that we're proud of. We come from very

different backgrounds. I'm seventh generation farmer. Your first generation. How did that start?

I describe us as accidental ranchers. We bought this as a eastern plains weekend escape and to train some

dogs, but quickly came to see that this landscape needed cattle on it.

First of all, all the infrastructure was here for cattle, the landscape, the ecology needed,

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