About


Hi! I’m Kamden. I’m the face behind Prairie Shepherdess. I’m a fibre farmer & shepherdess raising Icelandic sheep outside of Camrose, Alberta. 

I’m a city kid turned farm kid. After living in town until the time I was 9, my life and passions changed after moving out to the farm in 2017 and I’m grateful for it everyday. We moved out to the farm in 2017 and started off with 25 chickens and 2 pigs, and grew from there. Currently, my family raises hogs, cattle, and chickens, and I’ve got the sheep.

While we had livestock for a few years before we got the sheep, I never took much interest in everything with the animals until 2020 when we brought home our first sheep. My parents purchased a flock of bred Navajo Churro sheep in the spring of 2020, and here we are four years later! I’ve dabbled in the sheep world with a few breeds but after nearly 5 years, I’ve decided Icelandic’s is the route I’d like to go, and I can’t wait for the future. That first year with the flock we got to experience everything from rotational grazing, flock management, raising our own meat lambs, and everything in between. After 6 months will the flock, I grew a passion for raising sheep, and all the aspects that went into raising them from start to finish. When my parents decided that fall they didn’t want to continue with the sheep, I knew I couldn't say goodbye. They let me keep a few of my favorites, and it started there! I started out with 7 ewes, and I've never looked back.

Fast forward to 2025, I have a flock of 14 and am focused on producing quality animals throughout Canada. My flock consists of 14 registered Icelandic’s with the goal to expand in the future years to come.

I lamb once a year in the spring, and by the time summer comes around my lambs are ready to send to their new homes. I offer breeding stock each summer, and am focused on producing quality animals throughout Canada. Along with the breeding stock, I raise and process 2-6 lambs each year. The lambs are sold as whole lambs for tables, as well as I get back the hides and skulls. The skulls are cleaned, and the hides are tanned. I’m very passionate about whole animal use, so being able to keep the skulls and hides is everything! All the tanning is done right here on the farm by me using traditional tanning methods. The hides are hand tanned by the use of egg yolk from my families flock of chickens, and smoke to set the tan.

The flock is sheared twice a year in the spring and fall and while I offer most of my wool to fibre artists to process for their own creations, I do keep a few fleeces each shearing and process them myself. With the wool I keep back, I turn it into 100% wool dryer balls, as well as felted fleece rugs.

Thanks for following along!