Gardening & Beyond Video Series
To follow the theme of the Growing Domes®, we like to promote “going local”. You can’t get any more local than growing your food at home and we support local gardeners as part of this movement. In 2010 Udgar Parsons, Growing Spaces Owner & Founder, taught at a “Gardening & Beyond” educational program that was made available to the general public for free. Udgar has 44 years of gardening experience, 22 of which are in Growing Domes. We were fortunate enough to catch video of the class and have started releasing segments of the class on YouTube so more people worldwide can go local. It’s kind of fun to watch Udgar teaching to a group of 40 people at our local cooperative extension office, knowing that it expands out to people across the world and then focuses back in to one small garden at a time.
The first segment is below and the entire series is available on the Growing Spaces YouTube Channel
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Udgar built the first Growing Dome prototype and co-founded Growing Spaces in 1989 with his wife, Puja. The idea came out of his time volunteering at the Windstar Foundation outside Aspen, where Buckminster Fuller's Biodome work showed him what a geodesic greenhouse could do. He spent the next three decades refining the design and growing the company into a national business while keeping it rooted in Pagosa Springs. Before Growing Spaces, Udgar trained as a dentist in England and farmed off-grid in northern Scotland before moving to Colorado and becoming an American citizen. He and Puja sold Growing Spaces to Lem and Liz Tingley in April 2018. He still lives in Pagosa Springs and remains active in the local food and gardening community, including the Geothermal Greenhouse Partnership downtown.
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