Short Pump, VA — Whole Foods Market has taken over an acre in the West Broad Village development for a community garden that will help supply its local store.
This is the Austin, Texas-based grocer's first on-site field-to-store garden.
The garden is part of an increasing effort by retailers and others to bring locally grown products to grocery stores and restaurants.
Items grown in the garden initially will be used as ingredients for prepared foods and in the store's salad bar. But Whole Foods is waiting for final Henrico County approval allowing the chain to sell items directly to shoppers.
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