From our very first Dinner Tour we held here on the farm in 2016 I had dreamt of having chef “Delicious Dave” dish out his magic with Alaska Grown food from my families farms, Vanderweele Farm & Glacier Valley Farm. Which last year my dream came true. The food was incredible. Dave even plugged us over on his Instagram @DeliciousAlaska, I absolutely love his video where he captured the live music playing “I can’t help falling in love with you.”   But he’s the adventurous sort so when he said he wanted to cook again for us I was surprised, but delighted.  As of yesterday we have him for both our 2022 Dinner Tours in August and…

I was predicting a pastel lavender for the color of the year but I was just as tickled Purple or as Pantone say's Very Peri when they announced their color of the year for 2022 to be a gorgeous shade of purple-blue I've ever seen.

I believe reviewing our flower farm from top to bottom yearly has been a crucial aspect to our success. Although its easy to get bogged down with what didn’t work. Like the fact, due to the weather we never reached full bloom or employee challenges and other personal stresses. I like to celebrate what did work. And boy what a hard, cold, dream come true season 2021 was. We shared floral wellness in a bigger way, from our daily farm tasks, daily personal goals, to our events. Had budding interviews, fabulous photography and got to travel to the first floral conference since the pandemic started. Had beautiful flourishing sold-out events which included harvest…