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. 

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. The first year we moved out onto the farm we added 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 six years later! I’ve dabbled in the sheep world with a few breeds but after time, I decided to downsize to focus on Icelandic's and currently have a flock of registered Icelandic sheep and have 16 ewes & 2 rams with the plans to continue growing in the future.

My main focus in the sheep world is breeding & raising quality animals as breeding stock for individuals throughout Canada, though I also do lots with whole animal usage through meat lambs, sheepskins, skulls, and custom tanning, as well as offer raw fleeces twice a year along with a handful of finished wool products. Along with the breeding stock, I raise and process 2-6 lambs each year from my flock with those lambs sold as half/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. Along with hides from my flock, I also offer custom tanning services for those looking to have their own hides tanned.