Grow Tropical Fruits Year-Round in Wyoming? Meet a Couple Making It Happen
Lynn and Karl Lampe of Cody grow fruits and vegetables all year-round in their self-designed and unique geothermal greenhouse.
The greenhouse uses the earth’s temperature to regulate growing conditions, making it possible to grow tropical fruits.
by Amber Steinmetz, Cowboy State Daily (excerpt)
It was a recent chilly Wyoming spring day with the wind whipping outside, but inside Lynn Lampe’s greenhouse in northeast Cody, you wouldn’t know it, as the temperature was a balmy 85 degrees.
“It's just wonderful being in this greenhouse when it's so nasty and the wind's blowing Mach 3 outside,” she said.
“You can't even tell because you're down in the ground. It aerodynamically suits itself very well to the wind issues we have here in Wyoming. It’s very calming.”
Lampe has always enjoyed gardening, but Wyoming’s short season of about 115 days means several fruits and vegetables were a no-go.
To extend the season, Lampe wanted a new greenhouse, but not your run-of-the-mill variety.
She and her husband Karl decided on geothermal.
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