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Jason and Lynsey Kramer’s Yonder Way Farm outside Fayetteville has grown into a thriving business, feeding hundreds of families a month with free-range pork,
chickens and eggs and grass-fed beef. Customers can order online and then come to the farm to pick up their orders, to meet the team and see where their meat
is coming from. Photos courtesy of Lynsey Kramer
Home-Grown

Jason and Lynsey Kramer at Yonder Way Farm Help People Get Back to the Basics

By LUCY CARR We sit at a shady picnic table what Jason refers to as the “face- Jason to take a look. When they
It’s 10 a.m. in the middle of by the farmhouse as he tells me less food system” that is now told the seller their plans for the
July when I pull into the long, how he and his family ended up the norm, and buying instead farm, he was so happy to have
gravel driveway of Yonder Way in this beautiful place, making a from local producers around potential buyers who were going
Farm, just outside Fayetteville. living raising grass-fed cows, and Houston. “We started eating that to work the farm and not just
The sun is already high and free-range chickens and pigs. way and our health dramatically use it as a weekend home that he
hot, but a recent heavy rain has Jason comes from a farming increased,” recalls Jason. made them an offer they couldn’t
refreshed the grass, which has family but as an adult he was When the chance came to refuse. Less than seven weeks af-
turned a livid jade. The bright initially a firefighter for Hou- run a family farm near Brenham, ter they started looking for a new
blue sky is dotted with puffy ston FD. His wife, Lynsey, is a they decided to start raising home, the Kramer family had
clouds as white as marshmal- talented photographer. While in animals for their own food, but moved to the farm. “It was one of
lows. As I arrive at the farm, their mid-twenties, the couple that quickly morphed into raising the most ‘God’ things that I have
I find dogs lounging lazily in had “an aha health moment” them for others to enjoy. Five ever seen!” recalled Jason.
the shade, while chickens and when Jason went to get assessed years later, when the Brenham Now Yonder Way Farm is
turkeys roam freely, pecking and for life insurance and was told he property was sold, they began a thriving business, feeding
scratching and cooling off in the was at a high level of risk. The looking around the Round Top/ hundreds of families a month
dust. The scene is so idyllic, so couple started looking at their Fayetteville area, which Lynsey with free-range pork, chickens
pastoral, it’s almost unreal, but lifestyle to see how they could had grown to love from her visits and eggs and grass-fed beef.
there’s nothing fake about farmer improve their health, and began to Antiques Week. At first, Yon- Customers can order online and
Jason Kramer, who greets me with the basics: food. It started der Way Farm was out of their then come to the farm to pick up
with a warm smile and an apol- with trying to eat meat that was price range, but then the price their orders, to meet the team and
ogy for his sweaty handshake. traceable to its source – avoiding dropped and Lynsey persuaded see where their meat is coming

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