Welcome Flower Lover!
Flowers make the world a better and far more beautiful place don’t you think?
I’m Misty Vanderweele,
Your enthusiastic flower farmer.
Although not entirely a one woman show this flower farm is the “new” dream I started after the passing of my son in 2013. It’s how I’ve braved the depths of grief.
Which now over the last 10+ years has expanded into a blooming spotlight for beauty.
Further if flowers and nature light your fire and fill your vases I’m so glad you are here.
The summer months May-September come see what buying local is really about. During selected hours our cute little flower shop bouquet market is open for purchases. We also offer deliveries.
Also since our farm has so much beautiful scenery surrounded by mountains we offer robust agrotourism / floral-tourism events, walking tours, flower retreat and dinner tours.
We’re 2 Farms in One:
We’re the Vanderweele’s,
Glen, Misty in the middle and our daughter Jenna
living the dream of a seasonal farm lifestyle.
We agree, every things better with a view!
We live and grow our flowers on just under 2 acres right in the middle of Alaska’s largest vegetable farm, Vanderweele Farm. We’ve built a home and raised two amazing kids here. Jenna and our Luke in heaven.
When Luke passed at 21, I remembered all the dahlia tubers propagated from a spindly seedling he had brought home from Kindergarden. You can read more of his remarkable life story here.
The 3 of us love Alaska and the seasonal lifestyle as we work the fields, Glen in the veggies, grain and farm shop, me waist deep in the blossoms and Jenna my right hand doing all the things flower farming. There is a sign in our entry that reads, “life is better on the farm” That it is.
Glen: A 2nd generation vegetable farmer. Carrying the torch of feeding Alaska along with his siblings on Vanderweele Farm. He’s my “All of The Above.” He’s as handsome as he is a genius. A master fabricator who can fix anything. He’s always the strong supporter in the background and does some of the heavy lifting around here.
Misty: Glen’s wife and Jenna’s mom. The fun, passionate, crazy farmer-florist flowering Alaska.
Owning and operating my flower farm is truly a dream come true for me, a labor of love.
Jenna: A powerhouse in her own right. She is as loyal as she is loving, fierce, wicked smart, funny, and a leader at heart. My right hand and farm manager. Her continued support and wanting to be by my side warms my heart and fills me with pride.
And ever since I can remember, flowers have always been, -a true “flower power” girl with babies breath in my hair, to my first job as a teenager working at a local greenhouse.
If you’re like me you know flowers are one of the easiest, most natural ways to share your heart, mark life’s milestones, to give in sympathy and ultimately beautify all your living spaces.
Although here in Alaska we can’t economically offer you locally grown flowers all year long, your weekly flower fix is still very important to us, so if you can’t get local we sure hope you try to source American Grown.
Now, You might be wondering what we do during the dark drawn out days of long Alaska sometimes never ending winters?
It’s the process of slowly forgetting how hard farming really is by planning and dreaming of more gently dancing flowers in the wind for the next season.
Since flowers are better shared we also roll out the following year’s farm events and dinner tours.
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