Square Roots is an indoor urban farming company connecting people in cities to local, real food.
Square Roots is an indoor farming company that runs climate-controlled, modular hydroponic farms and offers its farming platform to food suppliers, researchers and other partners. Its homepage describes three parts to that platform: commercial facilities where partners can start growing crops, custom farm software for designing environmental recipes and guiding growers from seed to harvest, and a team that includes growers, biosystems engineers, operations specialists and carbon accountants. Partners can grow at one of its farms or license the platform to deploy a facility of their own.
According to the company's About page, its first modular farm opened in 2016 in a Brooklyn parking lot, growing produce for New Yorkers. It launched a Next-Gen Farmer Training Program in 2017, opened a second farm in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2019 in partnership with Gordon Food Service, and in 2022 opened farms in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Springfield, Ohio. Its Our Farms page lists farms in Grand Rapids, Kenosha, Springfield and Shepherdsville, Kentucky, says the company grows its produce inside refurbished, upcycled shipping containers, and states that it can deploy a commercial-scale farm in a new market in three months. The Our Farmers page describes Farmer Toolbelt, proprietary software that guides farmers' day-to-day workflows, and an in-house training program for new farmers. Its retail produce line covers herbs and salad mixes.
References
- [1] squarerootsgrow.com