About my small business called Angeli reindeer farm
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Hello!
I´ m Anne. Mother of three. I am a professional reindeer herder and Nature producer. Angeli reindeer farm is my very own small business that I founded 2018. I host travellers during winter at our reindeer farm. My aim is to give travellers a change to get to learn about our local way of life. I´ m sharing knowledge especially about the importance of diverse nature which is everything for reindeer herders!
If you visit us you can support a sustainable small local business. My small business has a sustainable travel certificate called the Green activities years 2020-2024. And my small business has gone through the program called Sustainable Travel Finland on those same years. With these labels I want to show my guests that my small business makes only sustainable choices!!
I make traditional handcrafts for our family and friends. I use mostly nature materials like reindeer leather, fish leather, Pine roots and fish vertebra. I also make jewelry with glass beads. We have a small giftshop at our reindeer farm where you can find my handcraft. Small varied selection of unique items. We also sell beautiful reindeer antlers that the reindeer shed yearly to grow new bigger ones.
I have two Instagram accounts.
@angelireindeer is my personal/business account telling stories about our nature connected way of life.
@karhukoru is for my jewelry that I like to make during rainy summer days when we don´ t have reindeer at home. I sell my earrings and bracelets sometimes at local craft markets.
We speak Inari Sámi at our home. Only about 300 people can speak it. You can hear about our ways to keep this endangered language alive while visiting us.
My husband name is Janne. He is a professional reindeer herder. Janne and he´ s mother has a reindeer meat shop in Inari. Janne´ s late father founded this home farm shop. Janne is a hunter and a fisher and he can fix everything :) Janne´ s family has been herding reindeer for over 400 years. My family has had also reindeer before the war. We are proud to continue reindeer herding with our three children.
We pursue in self-sufficiency in many ways. We hunt and fish. We pick berries and forage wildfood. We have a veggie garden and we grow most of our yearly vegetables. We make our own rich soil from our bio waste in four composts. We rather fix broken things or make our selves then buy new ones. I´ m more then happy to share about these important things to my guests.
We support the bugs and bees at our reindeer farm by growing flowers that bloom in different seasons and we have built bug-hotels around our reindeer farm using mainly garden waste like pranches and sticks. We favor local plants that bees prefer such as Woolly Willow, Ligularia Hietala and Rowan.
We maintain 12 birdhouses by cleaning and fixing. We report bird sightings to Birdlife which is the world's largest nature conservation organization.
Thank you for supporting my small business.
Anne
OUR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Angeli reindeer farm is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The company has chosen as its most important goals
Reducing inequality
Responsible consumption
Climate acts
Angeli reindeer farm pursue adding nature diversity on all of it´ s actions. We pursue saving natural resources for the next generations. We recycle and save surrounding nature in many ways. Our guests can recycle their waste while visiting us. On our nature connected visit we tell our guests stories how important nature diversity is. Spreading our knoledge. Our visit is authentic and unique product. Visit is based on existing real home, local culture and lifestyle of reindeer herders.
We are professional reindeer herders. Our reindeer graze free traditional Sámi way. Reindeer for us is livelihood, food, culture, Sámi languages, traditional knowledge, clothing, handcraft materials, nature, history, all!
By reindeer herding nature comes very important for us. We do big and small things to help nature diversity.
We have built 14 birdhouses around our home farm and we maintain those yearly. We feed carefully wild birds through the long winter. We report bird sightings to the world's largest nature conservation organization Birdlife.
Summer time we grow flowers that bloom in different seasons for the bees, bugs and the butterflyes. We have built many different bug-hotels. Every year we add more diversity to our surroundings. We favor local plants that bees prefer such as Woolly Willow, Ligularia Hietala and Rowan.
Traditional Sámi handcrafts are made from nature materials. I make handcrafts from pine tree roots, fish and reindeer leather and fish bones. Variable availability is sold in our giftshop. Our guest has a choice to buy a locally handmade sustainable item as a souvenier instead of mass produced item brought from far. Some items are made with recycled materials. Our giftshop has recycled and ecological gift wrapping if needed.
Nature materials are clearly shown at our reindeer farm. On the sings, decoration and even in the host clothes. It can inspire our visitors to apriciate nature more and decorate their own homes with nature materials found near their homes instead of mass produced plastic things.
Visit to our reindeer farm gives the visitor information about the history of the Sámi and the revival of the Sámi language through stories, books and handcrafts.
Angeli reindeer farm has a Green activities certificate from 2020-2024 to prove our sustainable actions to our guests. Sustainable actions are checked yearly.
Angeli reindeer farm has also gone through the program of Sustainable Travel Finland on the years 2021-2023. The Sustainable Travel Finland label is only given to companies that meet a strict set of criteria.
Angeli reindeer farm has signed Sitoumus 2050 Decision-making respectful of nature.
-Next step for my small business is to count it´ s carbon footprint-
Harvest pictures above. We grow vegetables during summer. We pick berries and fish. Picture of a quite big Pike that I caught with a long line.