See What’s Possible in a Growing Dome
Growing Spaces geodesic dome greenhouses support a wide range of growers, educators, and communities across the globe, from backyard home gardeners to schools, farms, and restaurants. Here we highlight real customer stories that show how people use the Growing Dome® greenhouse to grow food, share knowledge, and create inspiring spaces.
Whether you’re planning a school greenhouse, a community project, or a year-round greenhouse to feed your gardening passion, you’ll find examples here to help you imagine your own growing space.
Grow Your Own Food, Right at Home
For many Growing Dome owners, the journey starts right at home with a love of gardening, a desire to eat better, and the satisfaction of growing something with your own hands. Whether you’re a passionate hobby grower or someone committed to producing clean, safe food for your family, a dome greenhouse makes it possible to grow more of what you love, for more months of the year.
What Home Growers Are Saying…
Trying to keep the wildlife away was always going to be a challenge, and that’s one of the reasons I chose a Growing Dome. Growing Spaces has been incredibly helpful, and I’m very fortunate they’re just around the corner. Most of all, the dome gives me joy.
Wanda
18' Growing Dome Owner
This is a place I come to spend time doing my own thing, enjoying nature indoors. Gardening in Colorado is tough, but the Growing Dome has made it possible, and the support from Growing Spaces has been fantastic whenever I have questions. Being able to eat breakfast off your own plants? That’s been great.
Steve
33' Growing Dome Owner
A Growing Dome is perfect for my lifestyle. This size is just right for us, and I love the challenge of experimenting and learning. What we have is wonderful, but what I value most is the community, collaborating with other dome owners and sharing resources. It creates a whole family of growers, and that’s invaluable.
Nancy
22' Growing Dome Owner
You open the door and it’s just wall-to-wall greenery. It’s unbelievable. If you’re stressed, you walk in and instantly relax. October is my favorite time, watching the tomatoes turn red. It’s been a total success. No buyer’s remorse at all. I’d recommend a Growing Dome to anyone.
Joe
22' Growing Dome Owner
A Living Classroom That Grows With Students
For schools and educators, a Growing Dome becomes more than a greenhouse—it becomes a living classroom. Students step inside to explore science, ecology, nutrition, and responsibility through hands-on learning.
From elementary schools and high school programs to community colleges, teachers use the dome as a year-round space where lessons grow alongside plants, curiosity is nurtured, and learning feels alive.
From Inside the Classroom
I think it awakens their minds to different possibilities. They get to start seeds, watch the plants grow, and taste what they’re growing, and that helps them make healthy choices early on. It’s also a calm, inspiring space, and the kids come in focused and respectful. It’s a really unique experience for them, and the dome can be used in schools all over the country.
Kelle
Elementary Teacher, Pagosa Peak Open School
Being able to bring students here and go inside the Growing Dome lets them get their hands dirty and really engage with the science instead of just reading about it. They’re inside the learning, seeing what’s growing and how it all works. I love that students are part of building something that supports the whole community. It’s been amazing to see how much this has grown in just a year.
Tegan
Durango Educator
The Growing Dome is amazing. It’s my first time working in one, and it’s been so cool to see what’s possible. For a learning garden, having season extension in such an exciting environment is huge, especially with our short growing season. The kids are thrilled to walk in and see plants they might never see in real life, like figs, pomegranates, lemons, and even pineapple.
Brooke
Garden Manager, SOIL Outdoor Learning Lab
What I always try to do is help students apply what they’re learning. In the Growing Dome, they can see how science connects to real-world gardening and design. The dome allows us to grow food and do educational programming throughout the winter, which was what we were missing before. The kinds of projects and activities students are doing here are the best educational experiences I’ve seen in 25 years of teaching.
Charlie
Project Director, SOIL Outdoor Learning Lab
In our Growing Dome, students learn how aquaponics works from the ground up. Because it’s a dome, we focus on passive processes and low energy use, using gravity and simple circulation to keep everything running efficiently. We collect rainwater and grow crops year-round that wouldn’t normally grow in New Mexico. The best part is that everything we produce goes back to our students and the campus community.
Pedro
Greenhouse Technician, Santa Fe Community College
Grow More, Live More Self-Reliant
On a homestead, growing food isn’t a hobby. It’s a way of life. The Growing Dome becomes the heart of the property. When weather turns, seasons run short, or wildlife pushes in, the dome keeps growing. It allows you to start earlier, harvest later, and count on fresh food even when conditions outside aren’t cooperating.
For those committed to clean food and doing more for themselves, it’s a practical step toward real food security and a more resilient way of living.
In Their Own Words...
If you want to extend your growing season indefinitely and have good, nutritious produce all year long for yourself and your family, I highly recommend a Growing Dome. It’s a space we’ve all come to love. Even when there’s snow on the ground, you can step inside and everything is still thriving. It feels like a protected oasis. I harvest every couple of weeks, and there’s definitely enough to go around.
Andrew
18' & 33' Growing Dome Owner
One of the great blessings of having a Growing Dome on our homestead is that it allows us to grow perennial trees that would otherwise be too tender for our climate. I love being able to have salads in the winter and strawberries so early in the spring. The goal is to grow as much of our own food as possible for our family of six, and the season extension makes that possible.
Emily
26' Growing Dome Owner
It became clear that we needed the capability to produce mushrooms year-round. The Growing Dome has been perfect for winter production because the temperature inside stays much warmer, and the pond adds the humidity that mushrooms love. Being able to move our logs into the dome during the winter helps us keep a steady supply for our customers. It has made a significant difference to our farm and food business.
Brenda
18' Growing Dome Owner
This is my fourth Growing Spaces dome, and each one I’ve built, I’ve learned more and more. I’m a simple man. Give me tomatoes and lettuce and I’m happy, and I love being able to grow that kind of food in the dome. Even up here in North Idaho, I’m growing berries and fruit trees like avocado and citrus. In the winter, it’s a total game changer. The pond is my favorite part, and if I ever moved again, I would definitely buy another one.
Matt
18', 33' & 42' Growing Dome Owner
We added a Growing Dome to our homestead because we needed protection from gophers, deer, and turkeys. It lets us keep frost-sensitive plants like basil thriving through the winter. Our motto is ‘Time to Grow,’ and this project has shifted our mindset about growing food, slowing down, and appreciating what nature provides. It’s really about doing what you can with what you have and creating a system that supports your family.
Angela
18' Growing Dome Owner
A Place to Gather and Grow
Community Growing Domes are built for more than food. They become shared spaces where people gather, learn, and reconnect. Some serve as community greenhouses that support neighborhood growing projects and shared harvests. Others become places for wellness, restoration, and the kind of calm that’s hard to find in everyday life. These stories highlight how a Growing Dome can strengthen communities through collaboration, nourishment, and year-round connection.
