W2 Sheep Company

W2 Sheep Company is located near the cattle and wheat ranching community of Condon, OR.  We raise Teeswater, Gotland, and Wensleydale long wool breeds, whose fiber is coveted by the hand spinning community.  We diversified and also offer Cormo and CVM (colored Romeldales) for the fiber artist seeking fine wool fiber.  A dry climate helps produce an outstanding fleece with less grease and vegetable matter contamination.  Further branching out, we recently added club lambs to our resume with some Hampshire/Suffolk ewes joining the production herd.  We have shipped fleeces world wide.     

We are fifth generation cattle ranchers in Gilliam County where there is less than one person per square mile. Growing up we always kept a small band of sheep to keep the barnyard vegetation under control. I began knitting at five years of age and was always intrigued by spinning wheels. When our last child left home, I decided I needed some me time and with my background growing up raising sheep, I began this journey to raise the best fiber possible for handspinners.   We live in the house my husband's step-great grandmother built when she operated a ranch running several thousand head of sheep during the era when the wool buyers from the Northeast would come to the ranch to buy wool. Things have changed a bit since then, but we share her goal of producing the best fleeces possible for the market.