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 […]
Stories from the Field
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 […]
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 […]
The No List
From the day we opened our doors in September 1980, steadfast and selective have underpinned the attitude behind the standards of the products we sell — and love. When we review ingredients, we consider the interconnected effects of the way that food is processed and regulated by authorities in the U.S., UK, Canada and beyond. All […]
What is Endangered Cheese?
What defines an “endangered cheese”? These beloved artisan cheeses are facing extinction, threatened by decreasing biodiversity, the rise of globalization, and the growing popularity of industrial, mass-produced cheese. In fact, some of the world’s most iconic cheeses, from raw farmstead Cheshire to Fulvi Pecorino Romano, are becoming endangered too. In this issue, we celebrate some of the rare cheeses of […]
World Soil Day
Celebrating World Soil Day Soil is not something we can afford to take for granted. It’s the source of food and medicine, and when it’s healthy, it can help preserve clean water, increase biodiversity, and support mitigation of climate change. As it takes more than 1,000 years to grow 4 inches of soil, fertile ground […]