Dreamcatcher Farm is located in the beautiful rolling hills of Clinton County in Northwest Missouri near Wallace State Park. The farm consists of 40 acres of lush pasture, woodlands and creeks. The old farm house was built in 1876 and the large old red barn was probably built near 1900.

Our goal is to humanely raise and care for our animals. We are striving to develop a flock that produces excellent hand-spinners fleeces as well as quality purebred Bluefaced Leicester breeding stock and succulent lamb for the table. (Picture to the right is of Julia's fleece, a BFL/BL cross, click for larger view.)

DreamCatcher Farm is the home of co-owners Jennifer Fitzwater and Bridget Byrne. Bridget and Jennifer met 10 years ago when getting involved in the rescue and rehoming of Border collies thru Mo-Kan Border Collie Rescue. They developed a life long friendship and after realizing they both wanted to move back to the country but neither could really do it alone, they decided to do it together!

 

Jennifer was raised on a dairy farm in Northwestern Missouri, was a member and secretary of her local FFA chapter and went on to study equine at Parkville College. She is also the co-founder of Mo-Kan Border Collie Rescue and is an avid spinner, weaver, felter and knitter. She also enjoys working and training her Border collies to help manage the flock.

Bridget has farm roots in Kansas and North Dakota. Her father was the organizer for the Kansas Farmers Union in the 1950's. She has many fond memories of visiting farms with her father and always wanted to live on a farm. Her mother had a love of gardening which she passed on to Bridget. So the combination of a love of the outdoors, working with animals and gardening have now come together at DreamCatcher Farm!

Today Jennifer lives on the farm full time and Bridget has plans to build a house of her own in a couple of years when she retires. Until then she comes out to the “country home” on weekends to tend to her horse, Gracie, and new foal, Breeze, as well as her 7 Shetlands and Shetland Mules.

When deciding on a name for the farm (every farm needs a name!) they decided on DreamCatcher because it is a place where their dreams of raising sheep, working dogs, having horses and land to call their own, are coming true!