About

Thistlebridge is a single-family home in Utah with a 26-foot geodesic dome greenhouse. The parcel is shaped like a pizza slice, next to a freeway. Not ideal. That's part of the point.

The greenhouse produces plant starts for the neighborhood — tomatoes, peppers, herbs, flowers. The house also serves as a quiet test bed for combining local computing tools with practical skills like growing, maintaining, and documenting what works.

It's a home first. The experimental stuff happens in the margins.

The Name

A thistle is a useful weed. It persists in marginal places, provides food for pollinators and birds, has medicinal uses, and was historically eaten by humans in lean times. It thrives where other plants struggle.

A bridge is infrastructure — something that makes movement possible, that connects otherwise separate places.

Thistlebridge: useful persistence, marginal places, connection.

Contact

This site operates in broadcast mode for now — sharing what we're learning without the capacity to respond to individual inquiries. If you're interested in the work, the updates are the best way to follow along.