“We can ship and deploy these farms to any site in the world, each programmed for a different climate to grow different crops.”

Tobias Peggs
CEO, Square Roots

Project Team
Design Architect: Via Chicago
Architect of Record: Dan Vos Construction Co.
General Contractor: Dan Vos Construction Co.
Shipping Container Fabricator: Falcon Structures
Civil Engineer: Exxel Engineering, Inc.

Details
Wyoming, Michigan
6,700 sf / Partial-Prefab New Construction
Completed 2020
In collaboration with Dan Vos Construction Co.

Architect Notes
Building on the success of their first joint-location, Square Roots and Gordon Food Service recently inaugurated a second farm campus near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Utilizing a series of horizontally - and now, vertically - stacked shipping containers, the farm is able to operate on an even smaller footprint than the first complex. The deployment of this farm was a testament to the flexibility that is built into the design and overall farming model, with building modules initially intended for an East Coast site rapidly quickly re-routed to Michigan when it emerged as a more logical location during the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic. Design concepts, technological breakthroughs, and day-to-day workflows developed in this new multi-story model will be used to construct higher-and-higher farms on a consistently small physical footprint.

Recognition
Featured in The Spoon, April 2021
Featured in MiBiz, September 2021
Featured in Grand Rapids Business Journal, October 2021
Featured in Fast Company, March 2019
Featured in Forbes, March 2019