Those of us who live in God’s Country….the midwest….know that the green fields we drive past every day are either “beans” or “corn”. Those fields get planted, they grow, and the field is harvested and the product goes….well, where does it go?!
I already knew about Cargill’s corn based product, PLA, that is produced in my town, Blair, NE. We are so excited about Cargill’s plant based products that we purchased NatureWorks pillows as gifts for all our friends and business associates one Christmas several years ago.
I recently came across a wonderful woman on Twitter who was talking about Cargill’s SOY based products that the furniture industry was using to make into foam for furniture instead of petroleum-based foam. GEENYUS! At first, I thought this was the product made in Blair, and I sent a message to Leslie, asking her if it was.
She responded back to me!
No, this was BiOH, a SOY based product. Blair produces a CORN based product.
Oh well. It is STILL a great idea!
So I started following links she TWEETED about and found that MANY furniture manufacturers are using BiOH.
That product even has a BLOG!
I entered the contest they are running right now and I WON a $100 VISA gift card.
Just for expressing my honest opinion about a wonderful new product.
I am starting to EAT local and LIVE local, but I’m not sure I was thinking of products in my home as LOCAL and environmentally friendly. The more we are educated, the smarter consumers we become. I plan to start reading the tags even more on pillows and furniture and bedding that I buy from now on. I plan to check the manufacturers who are using BiOH in their foam and look at those websites for future furniture purchases. And I plan to ASK for products with BiOH. The blog also has a “locator” to find stores that actually SELL these items along with some great links.
