Columbia’s City Roots Farm settles into larger location and welcomes a new tenant — bitcoin miners

COLUMBIA (Post and Courier Columbia) — Two urban farms are expanding production at new, larger properties in the Columbia area.

Both farms are settling in to their new locations, even as tariffs and political shifts at the federal Department of Agriculture sew uncertainty for the future.

City Roots Farm, the organic microgreens producer founded in 2009, is coming off of its first year at the farm’s new location at 108 Carswell Drive off of Bluff Road.

The new location has allowed the farm to ramp up production and explore new revenue streams, said CEO Eric McClam, who founded the farm with his father.

“It’s been generally pretty wonderful,” McClam said. “It’s nice to have a purpose-built facility that’s efficient and designed to the parameters that we needed.”…continue reading