Volunteers, top photo, recently helped to construct a dome-shaped greenhouse on the Crook County fairgrounds. The volunteers attach plastic sheathing, middle photo, to the dome, which will help ...

SUNDANCE – Combine a bunch of triangles, and you’ll mix youths and adults and produce something good for the body – and, just maybe, the soul. Those attending the Crook County Fair in Sundance this ...

In the mid-1990s, an eco-entrepreneur designed and built a geodesic dome home in the woods near Brainerd, Minn., using a kit from Natural Spaces Homes in North Branch, Minn. The unusual home was a ...

During July, Jeff Edwards, a UW Extension specialist, and a group of volunteers constructed a geodesic dome greenhouse, complete with raised beds and an irrigation system, at UW’s ACRES Student Farm ...

Here's a fun project using candy corns and mini marshmallows! You can use them to help you make a geodesic dome, which is a spherical (three-dimensional round) structure made from connected triangles.

Clear, thick plastic lets sunlight into the greenhouse, and it protects the plants from the blistering heat outside. Unfortunately, plastic scratches easily, and the seams, or connections between the ...

Glass is a great choice for a geodesic dome greenhouse! In 1988, the Missouri Botanical Garden tore all 3,625 plastic panels from its geodesic greenhouse, the Climatron, and replaced them with glass.