No doubt going green is important to Farmer Suzie Futon. Suzie and The Futon Shop has been manufacturing futons & mattresses in the city of San Francisco for over a quarter of a century. The Futon Shop intention is offer mattresses that are good for the environment, safe for the planet, and basically will do no harm to the people sleeping and sitting on them.
Farmer Suzie and The Futon Shop accomplishes this by utilizing GOTS certified organic cotton fabric and USDA certified Organic Cotton. We also utilize bamboo fabrics as it uses far less water to grow then conventional cotton as well as being a very renewable and sustainable fiber.
90% of all the mattresses in the market today are made from different qualities of memory and polyurethane foam from petroleum - some even claim to be green but manufactures all their mattresses overseas. If the average consumer knew this they would not spend 1/3 of their lives sleeping on chemicals. To replace some of the petro chemicals in bedding today we ONLY use soy-based polyurethane foams including our memory foams. We purchase our foams, made by American companies who offer polyurethane and memory foams as a hybrid alternative and replace a portion of Polyos in Polyurethane foam with soy bean oil.
The soybean plant is renewable and natural grown right here in America by American farmers. The Futon Shop also uses 100% natural chemical free Dunlap latex. Unfortunately the United States has no rubber tree plantations so all Latex has to be imported. That is why there is so much chemically mixed synthetic latex in the bedding market today. Chemical synthetic latex is much cheaper than 100% pure natural Dunlap latex and can be made with as little as 5% natural latex. The Futon Shop purchased from American farmers willowed wool that is organically natural and helps to wick away moisture and adds loft and spring to the mattress foundations. Lastly The Futon Shop only uses United States made coil and springs from recycled steel in all our coil and spring mattress.
So is organic farming important to Suzie Futon, you bet. See our animation. 