Founder-led. Operator built. Every answer on this site is Trevor's.
Urth & Fyre designs, equips and optimizes cannabis facilities: 1M+ square feet designed, 95%+ microbial pass rates across 250,000+ square feet of canopy. One team from the site walk to the first harvest, and the same team that sells the equipment.

From the grow room to the drawing board
Trevor Christensen founded Urth & Fyre to give cannabis operators practical, numbers-first guidance shaped by real facilities.
He leads work across facility design, cultivation systems, environmental control, biosecurity, post-harvest automation, SOP development, financial modeling and equipment strategy.
His approach is direct: establish the baseline, identify the constraint, implement the highest-value changes, and measure the result.

Start here —
Where are you in your facility journey?
Five stages sit between a license application and product on the shelf. Pick yours and we’ll hand you the playbooks we wrote from 1,000,000+ sq ft of builds.
ClickTap the stage you’re in to see the content for your phase, then use Next to walk the rest of the trail.
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Stage 1 of 5 · Ideation & Financing —
Prove the model before you sign a lease.
Lenders and investors fund operators who can show throughput, cost per gram, and a facility plan that matches the license. We build the financial model, pressure-test the assumptions, and structure the financing that actually closes in cannabis.
985%documented ROI, Client 1 engagementThe playbook —
- GuideCannabis Business Financing: Options, Costs, and Lender Requirements→
- TemplateCannabis Cultivation Business Plan: Template and Financial Model→
- StrategyLab Gear as a Financial Asset: Spec, Maintenance, and Resale Strategy→
- ChecklistVirginia Cannabis Equipment Procurement Checklist for New Licensees→
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Stage 2 of 5 · Location & Design-Build —
Pick the site. Then design around the equipment list.
The wrong building costs you twice: once in retrofits, again in lost canopy. We evaluate the site against power, water, zoning and expansion, then design room by room from the equipment schedule out, so the shell fits the operation instead of the other way around.
1M+sq ft of cannabis facilities designed and optimizedThe playbook —
- GuideCannabis Facility Design: Room-by-Room Planning Guide→
- Field noteYour Floor Plan Is Lying to You: Design the Facility Around the Equipment List→
- Checklist47 Critical Items Before You Break Ground (Virginia Cultivation Facility)→
- GuideFacility Material Selection: How Build Materials Impact Microbial Control→
- ChecklistVirginia Processing Facility Checklist: Build It Right, Pass Inspection First Time→
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Stage 3 of 5 · Cultivation —
Build rooms that pass testing and hit yield targets.
Canopy is where the money is made or lost. Climate, airflow, racking, sanitation and SOPs decide whether you hold a 95% microbial pass rate or lose harvests to remediation. We design and optimize every system that impacts your cultivation environment.
95%+microbial pass rate across 250,000+ sq ft of canopyThe playbook —
- GuideCommercial Grow Room Design: Layout, Airflow, and Equipment→
- GuideCannabis HVAC Design: The Complete Cultivation Climate Guide→
- Equipment listCommercial Grow Room Equipment List: The 12 Systems Every Facility Needs→
- ProtocolHow to Pass Microbial Testing: The Complete Prevention Protocol→
- ScorecardCultivation Optimization: Facility Assessment Scorecard→
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Stage 4 of 5 · Processing & Extraction Lab —
Lay out the lab for flow, code, and uptime.
An extraction lab is a solvent room, a power problem and a chiller problem before it is a yield problem. We spec C1D1 and NFPA-compliant rooms, size utilities to the equipment, and source the extraction and post-processing gear that fits the throughput you actually need.
C1D1 · NFPA 30the codes every lab we design is built to passThe playbook —
- GuideCannabis Processing Facility Layout and Equipment Flow Guide→
- ComplianceC1D1 Room Requirements for Cannabis Extraction: The Complete Guide→
- ComplianceNFPA 30 in Practice: Solvent Room Design for Ethanol Extraction and Recovery→
- GuideChiller-First Facility Design: Closed-Loop Cooling That Won't Bottleneck Your Rotovaps or WFE→
- Buyer's guideThe Operator's Guide to Buying Used Cannabis Extraction Equipment→
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Stage 5 of 5 · Candy & Edibles Production —
Turn distillate into product that passes inspection and ships on time.
Infused candy is food manufacturing with a compliance layer. Depositors, cooking, cooling, NTEP weighing and GMP sanitation all have to line up. We design the kitchen, source the line, and set it up to hold dose and net-contents tolerance from the first batch.
GMP · NTEPthe standards every kitchen and packaging line we set up is held toThe playbook —
- Buyer's guideCannabis Candy and Edibles Equipment: The Complete Buyer's Guide→
- GuideTHC Infused Candy Manufacturing Equipment: Gummy Depositor Machines→
- Setup guideCannabis Hard Candy and Lollipop Production Line Setup→
- ChecklistCannabis Kitchen GMP Compliance: Equipment Checklist to Pass Inspection→
- GuideCannabis Packaging Equipment: Line Design, Compliance, and Cost→
Four rules the team runs on
The desk, not a department

