Year: 2025

Whole Foods Market Accepting Applications For Its 2025 Local And Emerging Accelerator Program

January 27, 2025 Whole Foods Market

Selected participants for the Early Growth cohort will undergo a 12-week educational curriculum. Once complete, participants will be considered for placement on the grocer’s shelves in their home city or area. They will also be eligible to be considered for a $25,000 equity investment from a donor-advised fund managed by the Austin Community Foundation, with proceeds benefiting the Whole Foods Market Foundation. …

Understanding the True Value of Flowers: How to Price Flowers Fairly

January 27, 2025 Rio Roses by Equiflor

To overcome these challenges, farms are adopting innovative practices to stabilize their workforce while maintaining the quality and consistency of their flowers. …

Denali’s ReCirculate Compost Made from Food Waste, Now Available at Walmart

January 27, 2025 Denali

Denali partners with retailers, like Walmart, to leverage its unsalable food with Denali’s innovative depackaging technology, separating organic food from its packaging and transforming it into a clean stream of materials that are then converted into useful products such as compost, soil, fertilizer and renewable energy. This process streamlines the depackaging process for retailers while keeping unsold food out of landfills. …

Non-GMO Project Launches Non-Ultraprocessed Foods Verification

January 27, 2025 The Non-GMO Project

The Non-GMO Project has introduced Non-UPF Verified, the next milestone in the transformation of our food system, developed under the newly established Food Integrity Collective. This initiative expands beyond GMO avoidance to address an urgent public health crisis: the pervasive dominance of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) in our global food supply, which now accounts for more than 50 percent of calories consumed in Western countries. …

North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission (NCSC) Commission Honors John Cooper with Distinguished Service 

January 27, 2025 North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission (NCSC)

While work for The North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission was “ad hoc” during the work on the ‘cooperative issue’, NCSC was John’s first ever registered client as a lobbyist in 2010. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to see the Commission succeed. John was instrumental in securing a recurring international marketing allocation from the NC General Assembly, as well as the $5M G.A. grant to combat GRKN and, most recently, an additional recurring marketing allocation of $500k, annually. …