Solar Powered Business

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.