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by Joseph Xu on August 23, 2024

The White Moustache

How do you preserve a culture when you’re forced to leave the country you call home? For The White Moustache, it means preserving a painstaking, but loving process rooted in the family’s Persian and Zoroastrian heritage. It means eschewing conventional norms of how we produce food, while enhancing flavor, richness, and legacy.  In this Whole […]

Filed Under: Communities, Experts, New Story, Perishables, Quality Standards, Sustainability, Team Members Tagged With: community, core values, immigrant, local, responsible sourcing, standards, sustainability, sustainable, woman

by Joseph Xu on May 13, 2024

Caviar for All

At Whole Foods Market our buyers don’t just sit behind a desk all day! Cultivating true expertise means getting out there and visiting our suppliers in person, whether that’s across the street or halfway around the world. Travel along with Annamaria Friede, our Director of Merchandising, as she and her team visit South Korea alongside […]

Filed Under: Communities, Experts, Local, New Story, Perishables, Quality Standards, Sustainability, Team Members Tagged With: aquaculture, caviar, core values, local, regenerative, regenerative agriculture, standards, sturgeon, sustainability, sustainable

by Angus Cann on January 29, 2024

Staying Small

When you purchase a product from a small family farm, you’re not just supporting that farm, you’re helping to keep entire communities vibrant and alive. Rural farming communities have been in decline for generations, and the time has come to put the focus back on the farmer. The choices we make in the grocery store […]

Filed Under: Communities, Local, New Story, Perishables, Sustainability, Team Members Tagged With: agriculture, community, core values, dairy, local, rural, rural revitalization, standards, sustainability

by Angus Cann on August 3, 2023

Plant-Powered Body Care

Since 1921, Weleda has been promoting a harmonious connection between plants and people. In this piece, we visit one of Weleda’s six biodynamic gardens to see how they grow the plants that power their body care-products, and learn how their sourcing philosophy aligns with Whole Foods Market’s!

Filed Under: New Story, Non-Perishables, Quality Standards, Sustainability, Team Members Tagged With: body care, skincare, sustainability, Whole Body

by Joseph Xu on July 13, 2023

Seeds of Change

Nestled in the heart of Costa Rica are the seeds of a new society at EARTH University. Founded in 1990, EARTH University has focused on giving young people from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and other regions an innovative educational approach to solve the world’s greatest problems around food systems. Part of students’ tuition is […]

Filed Under: Communities, Local, New Story, Perishables, Quality Standards, Sustainability, Team Members Tagged With: academia, agriculture, costa rica, earth university, sourced for good, sustainability

by Joseph Xu on June 24, 2023

Growing Up

The Pacific Northwest’s beauty and natural resources have drawn folks to move and live there for centuries, creating a vibrant mix of nature, technology and culture that permeates the region’s  communities. NW Farms is part of that vibrant mix. The vertical hydroponic farming company is run by a family whose aim is to provide clean […]

Filed Under: Experts, Local, New Story, Perishables, Quality Standards, Sustainability Tagged With: agriculture, local, sustainability, vertical agriculture, water

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