Wasatch Community Gardens powers an off-grid farm with Torus

Wasatch Community Gardens (WCG) runs its farm as a test of what’s possible in modern urban agriculture. As land gets scarcer, urban growers are pushed to more remote sites, often with no grid access. Prior to Torus, WCG had farmed off-grid for 8 years and had never gone a full year without losing power. Torus mapped the farm’s equipment and seasonal load month by month, then designed a system to meet current and future needs. It integrates with the farm's existing generator and solar array to provide off-grid power 24/7.

1. WCG’s farm site has no connection to the grid.
2. Seedling heat mats pull power in heavy bursts that push a solar array to its limit.
3. Cloudy, wet stretches cut solar output, and in 8 years off-grid, the farm had never gone a full year without losing power.

1. Torus delivers 24/7 power to WCG’s 100% off-grid, solar-powered farm.
2. Torus is sized for the farm’s worst-case demand, so heat mats keep running when demand spikes.
3. The farm didn’t lose power once this season, even through days of cloudy, wet weather.

Wasatch Community Gardens and Torus work toward the same goal: giving people independence over their essential resources. WCG helps Salt Lake City residents grow and eat healthy, organic, local food through its farm, community gardens, and education programs. Torus helps communities become their own sustainable energy providers.

Buildable land in the city keeps getting harder to find, so WCG moved its farm further from the city center to keep growing. The farm now runs 100% off-grid on solar paired with Torus. With Torus, WCG has better control over the variables that shape its growing season. After the Torus system was installed, WCG had its best year yet for seedling health, vigor, and size. The farm grew about 45,000 food-producing plants for its Spring Plant Sale and for local low-income families.

And for the first time in 8 years of off-grid farming, the farm didn’t lose power once.