Inventor Has It ‘in The Bag’
Kimberly Hess has been an inventor her whole life. She’s also been a gardener, a florist and a seamstress.
Now she’s found a pursuit that allows her to practice all those skills at once.
Hess has invented The Tomato Bag, a hanging, cone-shaped container made of recycled tarp remnants.
“It keeps remnants out of the landfill, it allows me to be creative and it could help to keep the employees here busy,” says the rural Halstad, Minn., woman, who works as an independent industrial seamstress at TRS Industries in Fargo.
Hess is also working on prototypes for a smaller herb bag, a compartmentalized petunia bag and a bag that would showcase dried-flower arrangements – another self-taught specialty of hers. Hess also envisions a deluxe tomato bag, which would come complete with its own water container.
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Jaclyn Wells on August 11th, 2009 1:17 pm
I love the idea of the tomato bag. I hope i see this item on the market real soon, it would be the perfect gift for my fiance as he is always complaining about his tomato plants falling over and getting crushed.
Lou Castillo on August 20th, 2009 7:41 pm
Hello Kimberly Hess,
I believe that your idea of the “Tomato Bag container made of recycled tarp remnants can go one step further and this is to perhaps a “Biodegradable” line. The world increasingly understands that the philosophies of the last century of “Bury or Burn and Forget” are no longer an acceptable option for the 21st Century. Biodegradable will provide an enormous challenge to you, Governments, agriculture, industry and consumers and will have a positive multiplier impact on society in all aspects.
Biodegradability, Materials are 100% biodegradable and compostible. They degrade into basic properties, ie: carbon dioxide and water without any eco-toxicological effect on global or aquatic organisms. I have worked with Various international testing authorities and have tested measured and certified biodegradability therefore assuring products made from these polymers are truly what they claim to be, “Biodegradable”.
Lou Castillo (PhD Chemical Physics)
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