OUR STORY

Free-roaming reindeer at our Siida
Free-roaming reindeer at our Siida

Our family is a small family company, which started at 2018. The most important thing to us is to offer our guests high-quality and authentic products and experiences, which are made with all our hearts. We try to use so much local materials and ingredients as possible, so our guests always get a true piece of Inari. Our company accompanies Sustainable Travel Finland program and on 2026 we got Green Activities -certificate.

Our family lives for reindeer. Reindeer and reindeer herding is our family, but also our company heart. Everything what we do is somehow connected to the reindeer herding. Most of our family reindeer free-roam wild and free at the tundra. But when visiting us you have possibility to meet and feed our family reindeer, which are taken care of inside the big enclosure during the winter time. We warmly welcome you to dive in to our life and learn more about local reindeer herding, life and reindeer!

Family mother with youngest child and family Lapponian herder puppy
Family mother with youngest child and family Lapponian herder puppy

Entrepreneur Raisa

My name is Raisa. I am a mother of four children, nurse of health, reindeer herder and a wife of reindeer herder. I love cooking, baking and every kind of handicrafts. I do many kind of handicrafts of reindeer and fish leather, reindeer antlers and different materials of nature. 

I have borned in Lapland and lived my whole life in Lapland. I'm daughter of a wilderness guide, fisherman and hunter and my mother is a cook. Nature has always been important part of my life and close to my heart. I have been only couble months old, when I have been at the first time with my family fishing and picking up berries. When I was enough old my father took me also with him to hunt. My grandmother family were also reindeer herders, but when I was a child we didn't have reindeer anymore.

As a professional I am BBA of international business and marketing, but also nurse and nurse of health. I speak Northern Sami, Finnish and English.

Entrepreneur Janne
Entrepreneur Janne

Entrepreneur Janne

Here is our family father Janne. He is a reindeer herder. Janne spends much time at the tundra herding our family reindeers. Reindeer herding is a way of life to him and it decides his year circle. His family has herded reindeers for centuries. Janne speaks Northern Sami and Finnish.

Family children
Family children

Family children

Here are our children (youngest one missing this photo). They are lights of our life. They are full of life and always so eager to take part in reindeer herding works. We are so happy, when we have possibility to let our children grow here in Lapland, groving as a reindeer herder and Sámi culture life.  Happy to teach them to appreciate and live next to the nature.