Plant blindess is the "inability to see or notice the plants in one's own environment," which leads to "the inability to recognize the importance of plants."

BigPicture photo contest winners celebrate diversity of life while inspiring conservation.

The winners of the Nature Conservancy's photo contest celebrate the natural world in all its splendor.

A food bank with a program that lets backyard gardeners get their abundance into the hands of those who need it.

'Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients' should be a simple rule, but it's getting complicated.

Why are hundreds of people taking up the challenge to bake every loaf in the 'Bread Baker's Apprentice'? The organizer has some thoughts.

Interested in canning jam but feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the process? This video shows you how to make a small batch without special equipment.

Seasonal, local(ish) fruit delivery from small farmers right on your office or home doorstep. Yum.

All of the ingredients for this monochromatic side dish are in season in most regions right now, and they combine to make a quick and healthy side dish.

The organic grocery chain lets local producers bypass the red tape of the banks and offers small loans to eco-responsible small food businesses.

Whole Foods helped to galvanize a nation of progressive shoppers, and now they're mad as heck.

Pedaling is a new web-based video series that combines cycling, food and spirits.

Find juicy fair trade pineapples at your local Whole Foods store -- and enter to win a trip to Costa Rica.

You can change your buying and eating habits, one step at a time, says author Lou Bendrick in an excerpt from her book, "Eat Where You Live."

Kombucha, the fermented tea drink that's exploding in popularity, was recently pulled from stores shelves across the nation after regulators found higher than e

A study has found that 40% of the receipts U.S. shoppers get everyday are contaminated with shockingly high amounts of the dangerous chemical bisphenol A, aka

Whole wheat beats white bread sales for the first time.

With 'heart attack season' approaching, the sweet fruit could be a boon for Americans' health.

Supermarket chain will screen environmentally themed films in more than 70 cities starting in April.

A boy from Thousand Oaks started making Braille labels for his local grocery store and now Whole Foods.

Whole Foods Market unveils a rating system for household cleaning products sold in its stores. But is additional transparency really necessary in a store that a

The Prius-driving, organic chicken-buying crowd give us something to snicker about in the Whole Foods Parking Lot.

A Los Angeles 'raw-gan' simplifies the raw lifestyle and diet in a cookbook and DVD combo, 'Going Raw.'

Our food blogger steps into a Whole Foods for the first time in years and learns a few things she didn’t know.

This company takes its treats to the next (green) level.

In a step in the right direction, Whole Foods announces it will remove all unsustainable seafood choices from its stores by Earth Day.

As Memorial Day kicks off summer in the U.S., an American alligator sums up the moment by channeling Gallagher with an iconic summertime fruit.

Spiced, sweet and tangy mango chutney can be used in a wide variety of dishes. This version uses natural sweeteners and is a healthy condiment.

Ariyele Ressler features simple, nourishing recipes in her YouTube cooking channel.

From boosting metabolism to post-workout hydration, does coconut water live up to its claims? And what about coconut milk?

An ad of President Obama selling chicken at a Whole Foods is perceived as racist.

The natural and organic chain of grocery stores promises full GMO transparency by 2018.

Healthy lifestyle education will be the focus of the company's first luxury resort in Texas.

Insects are lower impact and could replace meat in the American diet, but what do the veggies think?

Coffee, olive oil and fish are just some of the adulterated and intentionally mislabeled foods regularly passed off as something they’re not.

What qualifies as whole grain is different from processed food with 'high fiber' labels. Think assorted grains.

Whole Foods is donating a portion of the proceeds from wines to Whole Planet Foundation to fund poverty alleviation in areas where they source products.

When the upscale grocery moves into poorer areas, the potential benefits are huge.

The “hip, cool and tech-oriented” chain will target millennials.

When a California Whole Foods store put three stalks of asparagus in a bottle of water and sold it for $5.99, the Internet called them on it.

Michael Moss' exposure of the food industry in "Salt Sugar Fat" will open your eyes.

A book by Simran Sethi called "Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of the Foods We Love" documents the loss and looks for solutions.

Real maple syrup is worth the extra expense, but why choose maple syrup over other natural sweeteners like honey or sugar? Here's why and what to look for.

To lure shoppers, Whole Foods is lowering its prices, but does that mean there will also be fewer options?

Amazon is buying Whole Foods, though the stores will operate as a separate unit from Amazon.

Now that Amazon has taken control, Whole Foods' prices have dropped. Amazon Prime members will see more discounts later.

Our writer taste-tested the much-hyped meatless Impossible Burger and thought it was good ... but not quite great.

They may be convenient, but baby carrots — and what they represent — sure are wasteful.

Study of grocery store containers finds PFAS chemicals in two-thirds of containers tested, and Whole Foods' salad bar containers were the most problematic.

Inside a rather humdrum-looking suburban Washington, D.C., home, the typical family of 4 is replaced by a virtual clan as part of a $2.5M effort to test energy-