One of the most wonderful traditions within Whole Foods Market is that each of our teams are encouraged by our leaders to hold an annual team building event. More often than not, teams choose to include a community service component. Our company leaders are no exception; they truly practice what they preach! Just last month [...]
Posts tagged ‘Garden’
Whole Foods Market Leaders Get Their Garden On!
Posted November 13th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Garden Salad with Dulse
Posted November 10th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Place all salad greens, tomatoes, garbanzo beans, olives, and dulse in a salad bowl. Mix the oil, vinegar and lemon juice together and spoon over the salad. Toss to mix. Eden Foods – Newest Recipes
Turn Recyclables Into a Garden
Posted August 24th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
We’re big fans of recycling. We’re also big fans of gardening! And we’re always looking for DIY projects for kids that are fun and educational. This project, from the ScrapKins Build-it Book by Brian Yanish, combines our love of recycling and our love of gardening – and it teaches kids about both in a creative [...]
Apply for a School Garden Grant
Posted August 16th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Beginning August 17th, Whole Kids Foundation School Garden Grant Program will be accepting online applications for school garden grants! In partnership with FoodCorps, Whole Kids Foundation will grant 1000 schools 00 each to build or expand their school garden. To kids (and many adults!), gardens are magical places where they can see things come to [...]
Garden Project: Healing Place
Posted August 1st, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
First constructed and planted in the spring of 2010, the Whole Foods Market Garden Project at Healing Place Women and Children’s Campus (both a homeless shelter and a long-term recovery program) in Louisville, Kentucky, has turned into a self-sustaining food system that provides fresh vegetables for the 200 residents and staff of the facility. With [...]
Community Garden Magic
Posted January 24th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Whole Foods Market at Short Pump (in Glen Allen, Virginia) answered the call in a big way when the Mid-Atlantic Region asked each store to start or adopt a community garden. Last Spring, the store opened the company’s first on-site community garden. Almost an acre in size, the Whole Foods Market Village Community Garden is [...]
Michelle Obama: Video Tour of the White House Kitchen Garden
Posted September 10th, 2010 by Admin. Comment (0).
From Obama Foodorama Mrs. Obama extols the virtues of local produce and first White House corn crop In the video, Mrs. Obama strolls through the dense and greeny crop rows with reporter Jason Schoultz, pointing out heirloom tomatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, eggplant, beans, the very elaborate herb beds–and she explains what’s going on in detail. [...]
Gene Logsdon: Despite Gloom, Things Are Looking Up For Garden Farming
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Admin. Comments (2).
From GENE LOGSDON There were several times so far this year when I almost wished I lived in a high rise luxury apartment in New York far removed from the paltry world of cutworms and purslane. First the crows ate up my whole first planting of open-pollinated field corn and when I replanted, too deep [...]
Crazy Ideas For Crazy Garden Farmers
Posted June 30th, 2010 by Admin. Comments (2).
From GENE LOGSDON I wonder if a book titled A Guide To Insane Farming would sell, especially when, upon opening the book, the reader would encounter descriptions of how farming is actually done today. But what I’m talking about at the moment are ideas that really are off the grid, outside the box, beyond normalcy, [...]