BPA In Your Garden?

[suzanne sanders]

A few plus years ago we bought a new garden hose for our Kung Fu School business.  I hooked it up and right away all this white looking liquid was coming through the hose and it smelled terrible.  It was toxic !  That was my wake up call that another thing in my life needed to be banned.  It was time to do some research and find a safe alternative.  At that point we purchased for our home use, hoses that were semi-safe.  

 

Another wake up call for us was last summer, my daughter Sophia and I were at a garden store.  She picked up a sprinkler.  It had a California warning label on it and after holding it,  she noticed a toxic smell on her hands!  For most people who are not aware or wear scents on themselves, they wouldn't notice. Again, we were remind of how we need to stay on top of it to protect ourselves, our garden and the earth.  Big corporations, big industry do not care about any of that.  They only care about their bottom line.  

I came across (Thanks to Wildly Organic Women, on Facebook) this great article about the problem of toxic garden tools, hose's, gloves etc.  It also has some great references.

 Please!! to protect yourself and the earth, ban these things in your life and pass the knowledge on.

BPA In Your Garden?  Maybe, If You Use These Gardening Products 

Wouldn’t it just irk you more than a bunch of weeds  to find out that the gardening products you use are dirtying up your organic garden with BPA, phthalates and lead? Unfortunately, a new study by the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Ecology Center has shown just that.  Click on link below

http://www.organicauthority.com/organic-gardening/chemicals-in-your-organic-garden.html

Healthy Stuff: Researching toxic chemicals in everyday products 

http://www.healthystuff.org/

Short video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1l5KNV2cno&feature=youtu.be

Report: 

http://www.healthystuff.org/release.050312.garden.php

 Semi-Safe Hose

http://www.healthystuff.org/product.details.php?bcmode=search&getrecno=26740

Wildly Organic Women:

http://www.facebook.com/WildlyOrganicWomen

[suzanne sanders]

I have been purchasing some toxic free hoses for my gardens.  Here is another company that is doing them.  I am going to try one of theirs to.  http://www.waterrightinc.com/

[Victoria Pich]

Haha! I had just commented on one of your posts that hoses are a source of toxics! You are way ahead of me! And thanks for posting the links. Now I can find a better hose.