Becoming a Green Business

Puja co-founded Growing Spaces in 1989 with her husband Udgar and served as the company's CEO for nearly three decades. Her posts here are from that period. She studied psychology and philosophy at Westminster College in Utah, did graduate work in clinical and Jungian psychology at San Jose State, and led five nonprofit organizations over the course of her career, with work spanning music and art therapy, the healing arts, aikido, and sustainable living. She and Udgar sold Growing Spaces in 2018 and spent the next five years traveling, gardening their Pagosa Springs domes, and writing. Puja was working on a book when she passed away on February 17, 2023, at 76.Puja co-founded Growing Spaces in 1989 with her husband Udgar and served as the company's CEO for nearly three decades. Her posts here are from that period.