If you train with us at CFChampions you soon could.  This past Friday I (along with Alyx and Mia) drove up to Brenham to visit Yonder Way Farm.  It was easy to find, a beautiful farm and a beautiful day.  It’s what you would expect in the land of Blue Bell ice cream and happy cows.  Yonder Way Farm doesn’t make that claim but their animals looked pretty happy doing what pigs and cows and chickens are supposed to do.  They were all out grazing or foraging or just plain enjoying the sunshine.  I could have pulled up a seat and just watched contentedly but I think the guilt of being the only person sitting around doing nothing would have gotten to me.  Every person on the farm was working!

Lynsey Kramer was who I contacted on Thursday about a visit on Friday and she was kind enough to work me into her busy day.  From the get go I felt like I’d known her a long while but maybe hadn’t seen her recently.  Heck, by the time the girls and I were leaving we were already to the hug good-bye stage.  She just makes you feel like you belong there.  I loved it!

Back to the farm and food side of it all…After reading Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma and Cordain’s Paleo Diet and watching Food, Inc. I have been left with disgust at the food source options for not only our family but for our CFC family.  Over the past year I’ve searched for Texas raised grass-fed beef and have found sources that I’ve been happy with but none really close.  Yonder Way Farm’s website did pop up in the list and as they are only in Brenham I thought I’d make the time to drive out to actually see where the animals are eating and how they are treated during their time on this earth.  I’m a sceptic at heart and take claims on food labels with a healthy dose of salt so the seeing has become important.  Advertising and spin, in my opinion, make everything offered suspect and though their website makes no grandiose claims I still wanted to visit.  Life, of course, gets in the way and I’ve not made it out in a year.  After Food, Inc. came out on DVD and the last nutrition seminar there was renewed interest in the gym in food sources.  Nancy W. brought up Yonder Way Farm as an option, mentioning that Robb Exline of CF West Houston is working with them for his gym.  Okay.  That’s way too many times of hearing about/coming across the same place to ignore it anymore.  Time to get my rear in gear.  Last Friday was supposed to be beautiful with no rain in sight so…

Here we are full circle at the start with me contacting Lynsey.  While wandering the farm we tossed back and forth the idea of having her husband, Jason, come out to our nutrition seminar this weekend to answer questions, talk about what they do and see if we can get established as a regular delivery group for our surrounding area.  Just wait ’til you meet the Kramer’s!  This is extremely exciting and, hopefully, the beginning of a wonderful relationship!  Check out their website – Yonder Way Farm – for more info on who they are and their philosophy about farming and life.  The pictures are true to the subject.  No need to dress them up.  That’s really how the farm looks and the animals really are wandering about and its all really the opposite of what a factory farm looks like.  We look forward to seeing Jason on Saturday!