Alaska is a wonderful place, and we love living here. As much as we enjoy eating moose, salmon, and halibut (they are really wonderful!), sometimes we longed for the type of foods where we grew up. Amish and Mennonite cooking is world famous, just look at the many well known bakeries and restaurants in Amish and Mennonite country (PA, Indiana, Ohio). Did you ever have a whoopies pie? Shoofly pie? Scrapple? Or maybe something more standard, like a cinnamon roll, but with the Amish and Mennonite touch (this usually involves extra butter and sugar). You might be getting the picture-often this type of food involves extra calories, and perhaps we will need to add warning labels. Mennonites are not known for their salads and health foods-although; our products typically have few ingredients and no preservatives. In addition to baked goodies, we also have jams, jellies, pickled eggs, fudge, meat, cheese, coffee, and other items imported straight from Amish country (which is why when we run out of things, it takes so long to restock, we are working on that).

The extra calories usually don’t matter in the Amish and Mennonite cultures, as we generally work like horses (did you ever see an Amish barnraising). Of course, those of us with office jobs can usually be spotted waddling around.

Of course, Faith is a very important cornerstone in Amish and Mennonite cultures. We are closed on Sunday so our employees can attend church and have the day off. An emphasis is put on living a life pleasing to God, following the Bible, and living by the Golden Rule. Sometimes we fall short, and we are obviously human too. You might notice we don’t drive horses up here (the one owner, and his wife, fly airplanes), but we attempt to live by the aforementioned principles regardless. Actually, the one owner is a bit strange and was rumored to have driven around in a camouflage limo, before running it over a 300 foot high cliff in Glacier View, Alaska. He might not be considered a “normal” Mennonite. Some people don’t even think he is normal.

To conclude:

Indeed, we missed all this good food, and our young people needed jobs (although you don’t need to be a Mennonite or Amish to work for us). So we combined these two to create the Farmhouse Bakery and Deli. You could sum this all up to say we are about Faith, Food, and Family. We hope you will stop in and try some of our food and product offerings.