Tag: Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market Foundation Awards $3,425,000 to Schools To Grow 950 Edible Gardens Serving Nearly 555,000 Students

Stuart Mitchell

Whole Foods Market Foundation announced recently that 950 garden grants will be awarded to schools to start or expand edible learning spaces. For the second year, Amazon Fresh is supporting the program with $150,000, funding 48 garden grants. New this year, 100 select garden grant recipients are receiving additional funding totaling $100,000 from Newman’s Own Foundation to further their garden programs. The total $3.425 million investment will serve 554,385 students by providing $3,500 grants in the U.S and Canada. This year’s award is the largest annual investment in the garden…

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Whole Foods Market and Mad Agriculture Launch National Effort to Wild U.S. Farmland

Stuart Mitchell

Whole Foods Market and Mad Agriculture today announced a transformative collaboration to launch a national biodiversity highway initiative aimed at reconstructing native ecosystems across American farmland. This visionary program, beginning in and around the Lowery Creek Watershed in Wisconsin, seeks to create a connected highway of climate-resilient habitats restoring biodiversity, improving soil and water health, and strengthening the long-term resilience of the food system. The future of food depends on healthy, functioning ecosystems. Yet America’s farmland is under intense pressure—biodiversity is disappearing, soil health is declining, and the land’s ability…

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Whole Foods Market launches Community Giving Day

Stuart Mitchell

Whole Foods Market has run its upcoming second quarterly Community Giving Day, also known as “5% Day,” it rook place across all its North American stores on April 19. This quarter’s giving theme will support local and community organizations focused on environmental stewardship in both the U.S. and Canada. Nearly half of the Whole Foods Market stores will donate to The Nature Conservancy. “We are thrilled to partner with Whole Foods Market, a natural partner given their longstanding commitment to environmental and sustainability causes,” said Mark Burget, executive vice president…

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