Growing Dome Testimonials
Hear from Growing Dome owners across the country in their own words. This category collects testimonials from people who've lived with their domes for a single season, a decade, or longer, sharing what they grow, how their domes have held up, and how greenhouse gardening has transformed their households. Explore the perspectives of the Growing Dome community: practical observations, photographs from inside their domes, and the kind of detail that comes from years of hands-on experience with the product.
Taspen’s Cosmic Kitchen: Farm-to-Table Dining in Conifer, CO
September 30, 2019
Restaurant Greenhouse The Restaurant’s story. Taspen’s Cosmic Kitchen “is a place for everyone no matter what you eat.” They are a family-owned restaurant located in the Aspen Park Village Shopping Center at 25797 Conifer Rd B112, Conifer, CO 80433. All of their food & drinks are over 95% organic and 100% delicious. The idea to…
Milk and Honey Farm: Living Values, Creating Community, and Awakening Minds
April 27, 2019
Located on the 10-acre campus of the Jewish Community Center in Boulder, Colorado, the Milk and Honey Farm is a shining example of building a more resilient community through local organic farming.
Growing Bananas at 60 Degrees North
November 26, 2018
Janet and I first met Bjorn Oliviusson in Fall 2012 when we arrived to help install the 33′ Growing Dome Greenhouse sold to the Royal Institution of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. As described in Bjorn’s post, it ended up at a school near the university, a pleasant setting, but late Fall in Stockholm the sunlight…
Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet in a Growing Dome
November 16, 2018
Cara Barnes of Hollyhock Farms in Aspen Colorado talks about sustaining a whole food plant based diet out of her Growing Dome Greenhouse
Farm to Table Restaurant Growing in a Growing Dome® Greenhouse
October 25, 2018
Mirabelle Restaurant, one of Vail Valley’s most reputable establishments, is leading the way with fresh food grown on-site How does a farm-to-table restaurant source the best fresh ingredients year-round in a Colorado ski town? Belgian-born Master Chef Daniel Joly of Mirabelle Restaurant in Beaver Creek has been a devoted Farm to Table restaurateur his entire…
Cloud City Farm: Growing the Impossible at 10,000 Feet
September 6, 2018
Cloud City Farm: From Superfund Site to Community Gardens, Thriving High Altitude Farm and Year-Round Growing Dome Greenhouse With only 28 frost free days a year, and living 10,000 feet above sea level, they are growing what at first might seem impossible. Cloud City Conservation Center (C4) Cloud City Conservation Center (C4) is a non-profit 501(c)3…
Joyful Journey Hot Springs Spa Growing Dome Greenhouse
August 22, 2018
Joyful Journey Hot Springs Spa offers a rejuvenating experience in the San Luis Valley of Colorado with a Growing Dome Greenhouse
Pine River Garden Club: Growing Gardeners
July 19, 2018
Growing Gardeners and a Local Foodshed with a Growing Dome® at the Pine River Community Garden Instead of garlic from China and avocados from Mexico, the Pine River Garden Club in Bayfield, Colorado, cultivates their own local foodshed, grows gardeners and teaches how to harvest what you thought wouldn’t grow here. Pine River Garden Club…
Gardening in the Snow in a Growing Dome
January 25, 2017
If you want to see for yourself that the Growing Dome® was made for winter, for gardening in the snow, in the mountains, then you have to see the pictures we received yesterday. Here in Pagosa Springs, it won’t stop snowing. Outside continues to be gray, cold, and delivering one snow storm after another. We have all…
Winter Gardening: Growing Spaces
January 8, 2016
Claudia Stover, a Growing Dome® owner of 10 years, had a visit this past weekend from Growing Spaces® owners, Puja and Udgar Parsons. I’m pretty sure I counted almost 20 varieties of plant foods that she has growing, and thriving, in her Growing Dome right now, in early January. You probably caught that the outside…
Beautiful Blooms in Northern New Mexico Greenhouse – March 2014
March 14, 2014
Fresh lettuce, vegetable and a peach tree flourish in this New Mexico Growing Dome Greenhouse
Shumei Natural Agriculture Garden Growing Dome Provides Midwinter Solace
March 8, 2014
An update from Eileen Weinsteiger the Shumei Natural Agriculture Garden Manager “Seven years ago when the Shumei/Rodale Team was designing the new Shumei Natural Agriculture Demonstration Garden to showcase a small homestead and Shumei Natural Agriculture principles it was imperative to include a unique greenhouse. We wanted a greenhouse that supported sustainability, efficiency, art, beauty, the…
AspenPointe 42′ Growing Dome Summer Harvest
November 14, 2013
An update from AspenPointe: “A 42 ft. Geodesic Growing Dome was added to the garden in April 2013 to allow the community garden to provide programming for our clients and community year-round and to help provide fresh, local produce for our AspenPointe Café throughout the winter months. The Growing Dome was planted with diverse crops…
Growing Dome Owner Harvests Over 100 Cucumbers
October 7, 2013
From Ross Woolf in Spanish Fork, UT “I love going to my Growing Dome every day as a place to enjoy the peace it brings. We live in a mountain home with a very short growing season. The Growing Dome has made gardening a reality for us (as well as protecting it from the deer)….
Gardener’s Wake-up Call from the Wild
October 5, 2013
From Dee Armstrong in Fort Garland, CO “I’ve been working hard on the cosmetics inside and outside the Growing Dome while my fall crop ripens. I now have seven cantaloupe blossoms, ten beans that are almost ready to pick, eighteen bean plants that have already reached the top of the vent, and nearly eighty tomatoes….
Colorado Growing Dome Greenhouse Successful First Summer
October 2, 2013
“My name is Nancy. I am writing today to tell you how much I enjoy my 26′ Colorado Growing Dome greenhouse. I had my greenhouse installed in August of last year so this is my first summer with my Growing Dome. It has been amazing the way everything has grown, and so quickly. I did…
Growing Dome Survives Baseball Sized Hail
September 27, 2013
A severe hailstorm caused major roof damage, yet the 22-foot Growing Dome solar greenhouse from Growing Spaces remained unharmed.
Update from Green Angel Gardens Greenhouse
September 24, 2013
Larkin Stentz emailed us this beautiful picture of their 22′ Growing Dome Greenhouse at Green Angel Gardens in Long Beach, WA.
Growing Dome at the Solar Living Institute
June 28, 2013
Solar Living Institute Update: Unfortunately due to COVID the Solar Living Institute closed it’s doors in October 2020. They are still offering on-line classes. Recently we received an update from the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, CA of the 26′ Growing Dome greenhouse built in 2012. “The Growing Dome is one of the main attractions…
Oregon Tropical Flowers in Winter
December 7, 2012
This Growing Dome Greenhouse in Oregon is flourishing in winter
Success Gardening Indoors in Winter on the Oregon Coast
December 6, 2012
This Growing Dome Greenhouse is flourishing on the Central Oregon Coast
Greenhouse Helps New Gardener Learn Quickly
August 17, 2012
We love hearing from our Growing Dome owners, so when we received a very encouraging email from Lori Binczak, we had to share it with you guys. It’s so great when we get little reminders like this that remind us why we do what we do. We can’t believe what she’s accomplished in her 18′…
The Return Customers
August 10, 2012
Meet David and Edna Allan, some home gardeners who have enjoyed their Growing Dome, enjoyed it so much in fact that they have actually bought seven of them. In this video they talk to Puja Parsons about their many Growing Domes, and some of the techniques they use to to grow all year long.
Story Time With Truckee Community Farm
August 9, 2012
Bill Kelly and Susie Sutphin, two of the people who have started a project they call Truckee Community Farms, came to Growing Spaces and explained what their focus is and how they got started. We love to hear from people like these who take a good idea and put it into action, and we are…