http://www.geo-dome.co.uk

Within the sacred spokes of a geodesic dome there lies a garden of fresh organic foods, herbs, and spices. Providing food and medicine for you, your friends, family, and animals. Geodesic domes are a perfect design for maintaining ambient temperatures allowing super efficient year-round growing. Domes are very spatial and extremely strong in comparison to traditional square structures.  Scalable to any application from an small herb garden to veggies, berry bushes and citrus trees(dwarf citrus). Aside from being a sustainable producer of food and medicine geodesic dome greenhouses provide a nice atmosphere to be in.  Put in a water fountain and little area to hang out.


These structures are typically framed with wood, metal or plastic struts  connected to hubs and skinned with plastic, vinyl or glass.  There are a wide variety of different designs and materials that can be used depending on the application and resources available.  As a result of the structural integrity of the dome it is pretty scalable with the materials required; you can build one with a very limited budget.  A variety of plans and kits are available on the Internet to make the process very simple. I hope that a day arrives when a large percentage of the population are growing their own food.  People in communities would naturally have different type of plants and creative techniques for growing.  Varying species could be given as gifts or traded while each individual or household has a year-round steady supply of organic foods.

Some good resources for green house domes are:
http://www.geo-dome.co.uk

http://domekits.info/preview_003.htm

http://www.pacificdomes.com/greenhouse_domes.html
http://www.geodesic-greenhouse-kits.com
http://www.gardendome.com/

Check out http://www.acornsprings.com/

Growing citrus typically takes up a lot of space and cannot be done in a small back yard greenhouse.  Dwarf citrus solves that problem as well as vanishing the resources needed to transport citrus interstate.