A family farm that started on one basement shelf.
Spira began at home, during a hard chapter for our family. Today we grow in soil with no pesticides for 150+ stores and Chicago kitchens, and family still runs it.
Our farm in Bolingbrook, ILFrom one basement shelf to 150+ stores.
- 2020 · Spira Farms 1
It started in the basement
Chris’s mom was fighting cancer, and our family started learning how much nutrition these tiny greens pack. So we grew some for ourselves. We started with one shelf and a few trays, hooked sinks up to hoses for water, and blew more fuses than we can count until Chris’s dad ran a new power line. Before long we were growing for our neighbors too, and Spira Farms was born at the end of 2020.
- The long nights
Harvest at 6, day job at 9
We harvested at sunrise, worked our day jobs, then cut and packed for deliveries at night. Some nights ran past 11. Chris’s mom, in the middle of her own treatment, and his dad stayed up helping us finish. Working the farm together gave our family something to solve that wasn’t about health.
- 2022 · Spira Farms 2
A real shop in downtown Lemont
Our first rented space was a block from home, close enough to see from our bedroom window (and to spot a blown fuse at 10 pm). It had 2,000 square feet, and we even tried a little deli-style produce shop. By the end we were growing 600+ trays and hauling 540 gallons of soil a week.
- 2024 · Spira Farms 3
Going vertical in Bolingbrook
In September 2024 we moved into a 5,000 square foot warehouse with 20-foot ceilings and shelves 12 feet high. That same year our greens were on Season 3 of The Bear.
- 2025 · Today
Built to keep growing
We wrote our own software to run the farm, added machines that take on the back-breaking work, and now put all of our grow waste back to use on the farm. We’re USDA GAP certified, and our greens are harvested and locally delivered to 150+ stores and to restaurant kitchens.
For Mom.
Chris’s mom battled cancer for five years. Through her treatments she helped lay the foundation of Spira: watering, planting and harvesting, with an eye for detail that none of us could match. She was part of the team when we opened in Lemont, and this farm is dedicated to her.
“When you’re healthy you want a million things. When you’re sick you only want one.”
That is why we put health and family first, and why we grow the way we do.
Local, sustainable food, all the way through.
Plant-based containers
Our packs are made from corn-based PLA, with no petroleum plastic.
Nothing goes to waste
All of our grow waste goes back to use on the farm.
What’s next
Making our own power and delivering our own greens.
Fresh greens. Super nutrition.