FAMILY ANGELI

Picture of our family by Tytti Bräysy @tyttitupuna

We work together as reindeer herders in three generations. 

I´m Anne (second from left). Mother of three. I´ m reindeer herder and Nature producer by profession. I love fishing and exploring flora and fauna. I love to work with animals. Angeli reindeer farm is my small business. If you visit us you can support a local female owned small business. I´ m learning and doing traditional Sámi handcrafts. I use mostly nature materials that I collect around the year. I also make jewelry by beading small glass beads. 

I keep up three Instagram accounts.

@karhukoru is for my jewelry.

@angelireindeer is my personal/business account.

@jouninporo is our reindeer meat shop.

My husband name is Janne (first on left). He is a professional reindeer herder. He is a hunter and a fisher. He can fix everything. Janne´ s family has been herding reindeer for over 400 years. And my family has had reindeer before the last war here. We are proud to teach reindeer herding to our three children. Well-being of our reindeer is our top priority. 

We speak Inari Sámi at our home. Only 300 people can speak it. You can hear about our ways of keeping our endangered language alive on our reindeer farm visit. 

We pursue in self-sufficiency in many things. We hunt and fish. We pick berries and forage wildfood. We have a veggie garden where we grow most of our yearly vegetables.

Thank you for supporting our small sustainable business. 

Anne

OUR NATURE POLICY

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. 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 and lifestyle. Nothing is built or extra bought for visitors. 

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 and we maintain those. We feed carefully wild birds through the long winter. Summer time we grow flowers for the bees and the butterflyes. Every year more.

Traditional Sámi handcrafts are made from nature materials. We make handcrafts from pine tree roots, fish and reindeer leather and fish bones. Handcrafts are made for our family and visitor can explore them on the visit. Variable availability is to be sold in our giftshop. Nature materials are clearly shown at our reindeer farm. It can inspire our visitors to apriciate nature more and decorate their homes with nature materials instead of mass produced plastic things.

Angeli reindeer farm has a Green activities certificate to show our sustainable actions. Sustainable actions are checked yearly and we have had the certificate in three years now 2021 and 2022 and 2023.

Angeli reindeer farm has gone through the program of Sustainable Travel Finland. 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.

Our family of five carbon footprint is 3600kgCO2e all together counted with ilmastodieetti.ymparisto.fi

Pictures of our veggie garden harvest. We grow vegetables during summer at our backyard.