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by Joseph Xu on October 10, 2022

Nourishing Our Backyard

How do we feed ourselves by feeding our communities? As housing prices and the wage gap increase, lower-income residents in Austin, TX are finding it increasingly harder to find their next meal and integrate themselves into a rapidly changing city.   With organizations like Whole Foods Market’s Nourishing Our Neighborhoods, Keep Austin Fed, and Foundation […]

Filed Under: Communities, Local, New Story, Sustainability, Team Members

by Angus Cann on March 7, 2022

Celebrating International Women’s Day with Whole Planet Foundation

Celebrating International Women’s Day with Whole Planet Foundation This year’s International Women’s Day theme is to break the bias. It challenges us to imagine a world free of gender bias and discrimination. Across the globe, women entrepreneurs typically have fewer resources, and less access to financial systems. Whole Planet Foundation works with collaborative organizations to provide microlending services to […]

Filed Under: Communities, New Story

by Angus Cann on March 7, 2022

Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs

Microcredit can have a mighty impact on poverty.  Since 2005, Whole Planet Foundation has funded 5.7 million microcredit loans to low-income entrepreneurs – mostly women – through microfinance relationships in 80 countries around the world where Whole Foods Market sources products.    Whole Planet Foundation (WPF) is a Whole Foods Market non-profit dedicated to alleviating poverty […]

Filed Under: Communities, Experts, New Story

by Angus Cann on February 14, 2022

Sourced for Good Flowers

Our Sourced for Good program highlights our commitment to responsible sourcing. In collaboration with farms, suppliers and international third-party certifiers like Fair Trade USA, Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade America, Fair Food Program, Regenerative Organic Certified and Equitable Food Initiative, we’re helping provide for things like fair wages, health care, student scholarships, planting trees to prevent erosion […]

Filed Under: Communities, New Story, Perishables, Quality Standards, Sustainability

by Angus Cann on November 15, 2021

Celebrating 10 Years of Growing Healthy Kids

Our friends at Whole Kids Foundation have been working tirelessly to change the way kids eat and think about food, and school gardens and salad bars have always been at the heart of that mission. School gardens spark curiosity, autonomy, pride, and a connection to the earth in kids, and school salad bars offer students […]

Filed Under: Communities, New Story

by Angus Cann on October 25, 2021

Celebrating 15 Years of the Local Producer Loan Program

What does local mean to you? To us, it’s food that tastes of home and products that stem from scrappiness and innovation and lead to paradigm-shifting trends. It’s traditionally milled local wheat, small-batch heirloom popcorn, locally raised lamb, and deliciously chewy jerky made from — wait for it — mushrooms. Fifteen years ago, we launched […]

Filed Under: Communities, Experts, Local, New Story

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