Handicrafts and natural products
The people of Karila also make all kinds of handicrafts and natural products outside of working at the café.
Signe knits wonderfully warm mittens, makes Lappish drums and collects herbs for her own tea blends.
Annukka sews merino wool beanies, neck warmers and balaclavas in her quieter time.
Lea, on the other hand, makes dolls and processes the produce from the semi-wild herb garden into Spirit of Äkäslompolo products.
Karila Farm grows herbs such as mint, nettle, yarrow, and other herbs are collected from the surrounding area. Products are made from the herbs to be sold at the Navettagalleria café.
Other products are also made from herbs, berries, and mushrooms, such as matsutake salt, juniper berry salt, rose-, elderberry-, and mint sugar.
Signe
Café worker, handicrafts, natural products
Signe is our longest-serving employee. Signe and Sami (Lea’s son) met twelve years ago in Tivoli, Finland, where they were both working summer jobs at the time. They now live in Äkäslompo with their three-year-old son Heino. Signe is therefore the daughter-in-law of the house.
Small shop within the café
We have a small shop within the café, where we display local – and also our own – handicrafts and herbal products. For sale are warm mittens and colorful Lappish drums made by Signe, merino wool hats and neckerchiefs by Annukka, herbal products by Lea, postcards and posters by Elsa-Maria, fun jewelry, and decorative figures made by Irina from Ukraine.
Annuka‘s merino wool headgear
Signe’s Lappish drums
Product wall at the café
Elsa-Maria‘s postcards and posters
Äkäslompolo Village Association’s otter products
Äkäslompolo Family Association organic t-shirts
In addition to handicrafts and natural products, otter products from the Äkäslompolo Village Association and organic t-shirts from the Äkäslompolo Family Association are also on sale. By purchasing these products, you support the cultural activities of the village association and the community of the area.
https://www.äkäslompolo.fi/etusivu.html (FIN)
We warmly welcome you browse our little shop!
