Our Story
We are Michael Gallagher and Ashley Amsden, and we've been operating Square Roots Farm since 2010.
We began with 30 CSA shares, some feeder pigs, and a bunch of meat chickens.
In 2013, we purchased the old Fletcher Farm—just two miles from Michael's childhood home—from Berkshire Natural Resources Council, and we were married here on the farm later that year.
We continue to farm joyfully on these 185 beautiful and diverse acres with our two children, Maggie and Everett.
Meet The Farmers
Michael Gallagher
Michael is a Berkshire County native who got his first taste of farming while baling hay over the summer in high school. After graduating from Williams College and teaching math with the Mississippi Teacher Corps, he turned his attention to agriculture. He spent two years apprenticing on diversified, organic farms in New York and Vermont before returning to the Berkshires to start Square Roots Farm.
Ashley Amsden
Ashley is a transplant from Vermont’s Champlain Valley. After earning a degree in music and traveling around the country doing trail work and environmental ed, her path crossed with Michael’s when they were farm apprentices in 2009. She earned her Master’s in Elementary Education from Antioch University New England and has taught all ages in a variety of settings. She currently works as a Math Specialist at a local independent school.
