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Kramers Want You to Enjoy

Food With a Clear Conscience

from, or pick it up from one of farmhouse, with low fencing
the many locations all over the around the tables so the pigs can
Austin and Houston area that Ja- wander around as diners enjoy
son and his team deliver to. They their food. He wants to call it
also ship to addresses in Texas. Swine Dining. And, yes, pork
An increasingly popular way will probably be on the menu.
to buy the food and meet the But that’s the whole purpose of
family, which includes their four this farm. To enjoy the meat with
daughters, is to come to their a clear conscience, knowing the
monthly Farm Days. More than animals were raised well, fed
600 people turned up to the first well and had freedom.
one they held, in May of this “I want you to be aware that
year. Even torrential rain didn’t this is how they live,” explains
deter more than 200 people Jason. “If you feel not knowing
turning up for the second one, in is better, then shame on you!
June. “We had people walking Because you don’t realize the
outside just soaking wet and horrible lives that those animals
we were doing hamburger and live. I am not an animal rights
sausage. I ended up pulling my activist in any way, clearly – we
school bus out and I put condi- raise animals for food. But I do
ments on the dashboard and believe that, as good stewards,
people just sat in the school bus, we only want our animals to
eating. It was fun!” Jason recalls. have one bad day ... and if you
When I visited the July farm day, can do that, if you can let them
there were bounce houses for the live as they are naturally sup-
children, a DJ and karaoke, farm posed to be doing, and the only
tours and lots of delicious things bad day they have is when they
to buy, including grass-fed burg- go to fulfill their purpose, then I
ers and sausages on sticks. sleep pretty good about that.”
There’s also a plan to offer With that, we set off for a
farm-to-table dinners. “Food tour of the farm. I see pigs wal-
unites people. We have enjoyed lowing up to their necks in mud,
having a community through or hiding from the sun under
food,” explains Jason. He hopes their domed shelters. Chickens
to build this community with the cluck around us as we approach
construction of an event space one of the many hen houses,
on the farm. And then there’s the which have to be moved every
plan to host an open-air din- two days so the birds can find
ner under the oak trees near the Continued on next page

The barn at Yonder Way Farm.

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