Business is booming for the LaFaver Family Farm.

The first-generation, family owned establishment is nestled on a plot between Shartlesville and Hamburg in Berks County.

It began in 2012 as a beef farm offering non-GMO, grass-fed meat, free of injections or hormones.

During the warm months, the LaFaver’s cattle graze freely in the fields. The steer are tended to by owners Travis and Emily LaFaver, with the help of their daughters, Ellie, Isabella and Lyla.

The LaFavers’ products have been a runaway hit with the local community and beyond, with the farms success enabling the family to open an on-site farm store in 2019, followed by a second store in Wyomissing in November 2023.

“The support from the local community is amazing,” Travis LaFaver told MediaNews Group . “Over the last few

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