Sustainable Brands
How Lundberg Family Farms Is Growing a Regenerative Future
Leave the land better than you found it. It’s a guiding principle that the Lundberg family of farmers has lived by for generations, ever since great-grandfather Albert Lundberg moved to California in the 1930s. Today, Lundberg Family Farms grows organic rice in much the same way that their ancestors did, with a reverence for the ...
From the Start, Peace Coffee’s Mission Was Simple—Brew Better for People and Planet
You can learn a lot about a person from the way they make their coffee. When it comes to her morning ritual, Peace Coffee owner and CEO Lee Wallace keeps it simple: ethically sourced beans, brewed in a pour-over. Some days, she’ll have an espresso in the afternoon. Since 1996, Peace Coffee has been at ...
10 Years of Thriving: Thrive Market’s 2024 Impact Report
We started Thrive Market in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. 10 years later, it still drives us — from our industry-leading quality standards to our company-wide sustainability practices. In 2024, we reached a longtime goal to welcome SNAP EBT to Thrive Market, passed more than ...
Here Are Your Golden Shelfie Winners! The Best Thrive Market Products for 2025
Every year, our members choose the best products at Thrive Market in our annual Golden Shelfie awards. From the most craveable, kid-friendly snacks to your favorite environmentally conscious cleaners, these are the products that are always in your cart at checkout. Without further ado, we’re ready to unveil this year’s Golden Shelfie winners! Read on ...
What Are the Main Pillars of Sustainability?
At Thrive Market, sustainability isn’t just a buzzword—it’s one of the core values that shapes everything we do, from the products we carry to how they’re packaged and shipped. But sustainability is more than just eco-friendly practices; it’s a broader commitment to supporting the health of people, communities, and the planet. This is often framed ...
Best Sustainable Kids & Baby Brands at Thrive Market
As parents, we want the best for our little ones—safe, nourishing, and eco-conscious products that support a healthy future for both our children and the planet. Fortunately, many brands are dedicated to sustainable sourcing, responsible packaging, and clean ingredients. At Thrive Market, we carefully curate products that align with these values, offering families sustainable choices ...
10 Examples of Sustainable Agriculture & Farming Techniques
This article was written with help from AI and edited by Thrive Market’s talented team of human writers. Sustainable agriculture focuses on producing food while preserving the environment, ensuring economic profitability, and promoting social well-being. To accomplish this, farmers rely on eco-friendly farming practices like crop rotation, no-till farming, and agroforestry to help maintain soil ...
Here’s How Our Community Helped Those Affected By the Los Angeles Wildfires
Thrive Market is proud to call Los Angeles our home, and we were devastated for our colleagues, friends, and neighbors impacted by the unimaginable fires that overtook the city last month. Thanks to the generosity of our members and partners, we’ve been able to provide meaningful relief to those affected. Together, here’s how we helped: ...
Empowering Uganda’s Small Farmers, One Regeneratively Grown Pineapple at a Time
The sweet, golden pineapple is beloved worldwide, but in Uganda, farmers grow the fruit in ways that protect the environment while also supporting the future of their communities. According to the International Trade Administration, 68% of Uganda’s working population is employed in agriculture, producing staple crops like coffee, sugar, corn, beans, and fruit. However, much ...
It’s Our 10th Birthday! Take a Look Back at a Decade of Thriving
In 2014, Thrive Market started with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. 10 years, more than 1.5 million members, and countless boxes of healthy groceries later, our community has proved it’s a mission that matters. To celebrate 10 years of Thrive Market, we’re looking back at some of ...
Best in Class: Meet the A+ Winners of The After Schoolies Awards
Parents are always on the hunt for affordable, healthy finds and foods their kids will actually enjoy. That’s where the winners of our brand-new awards, The After Schoolies, come in. These standout products have been tried, tested, and loved by our members and their little ones. From tasty after-school snacks to practical picks for your ...
For EO and Everyone, Authenticity Is as Much in Their Essential Oil-Based Products as Their Brands
After nearly 30 years in business, you might think that EO, the brand that makes essential oil-based body and hair care, runs like a machine without much heart behind it. But soon after meeting co-founders and co-CEOs Susan Griffin-Black and Brad Black, you feel like you’re talking to the passionate team behind a small, family-run ...
Algae Cooking Club Is About to Become Your New Favorite Cooking Oil
Consider your preferred cooking oil. You likely store it somewhere near your stove, easy to grab when you need to drizzle some in a pan for your morning eggs or to marinate chicken for the evening’s dinner. You stock up when you need to, but other than that, you probably don’t give it much thought. ...
How to Grill With Ghee: Tips, Health Benefits, and a Summer Side Dish Recipe From 4th & Heart
Have you tried cooking with ghee? While eating styles like keto and paleo have popularized the condiment in recent years, ghee is by no means a “new” food. Clarified butter (or ghee) has been around for more than 4,000 years — so if you haven’t started cooking with it yet, this summer may be the ...
How Thrive Market and rePurpose Global Are Encouraging Brands to Reduce Their Plastic Use
Even the most well-intentioned brands have issues addressing their plastic use. The reality is that plastic is an incredibly common, affordable, and practical material for things like packaging and shipping; unfortunately, it’s also polluting our planet at a rate that recycling alone cannot begin to address. Thanks to our partnership with rePurpose Global, the world’s ...
Crofter’s Organic: Sustainability-Focused Fruit Spreads That Span Generations
While Crofter’s is a proudly Canadian company, the brand’s roots can be traced back to a village across the world in rural Germany. Gerhard and Gabi Latka met and married in the same German town where they both grew up; Gerhard’s father owned a food flavor and extraction company, and the couple learned firsthand about ...
We Asked Members of Our AAPI Employee Resource Group for Their Favorite Products from AAPI-Founded Brands
In honor of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Heritage Month, we set out to find the very best Thrive Market products that showcase AAPI-founded brands or cuisines. Luckily, we knew just where to start: with our G.O.A.T. Employee Resource Group. This employee-run group (which stands for “Group of AAPI Thrivers”) aims to advocate for ...
ALOHA’s Thrive Market Exclusive Pa’akai Bar Supports Local Farms & Sustainability in Hawaii
The Hawaiian word Paʻakai can be split into two different root words: paʻa, which means “solidified”, and kai, which means “ocean water”. In the Hawaiian language, Paʻakai translates to “sea salt” — the solidified form of water from the sea. The second flavor in ALOHA’s special edition line carried at Thrive Market, the ALOHA Pa’akai ...
The Best Sustainable Hacks & Habits from Thrive Market Employees
When we set out to share some tips for how to develop more sustainable habits this Earth Month, we turned to some of our favorite sustainability pros: our very own employees. Aside from working to provide healthy, organic groceries to our members, many Thrive Market employees also make it a point to live low-waste or ...
The Best Thrive Market Products: Earth Month 2024
One way to make a positive environmental impact is by shopping from brands and suppliers that have a gentler impact on our planet and its natural resources. Things like the foods we eat and the packaging we use can all have an effect on climate change, so supporting ethical, environmentally conscious systems is one way ...
Meet the Mother and Daughter Team Behind Mexican Food Brand Saucy Lips
Saucy Lips, a mother-daughter-founded Mexican sauce brand, combines the thoughtful, traditional recipes of their Mexican heritage with wholesome ingredients and modern, health-conscious touches. We spoke to Saucy Lips founders Natalia and her mother, Gabriela, about their inspiration behind creating a food brand, their thoughts on sharing the highs and lows of entrepreneurship as a family, ...
Freshé Makes Sustainably Sourced Tinned Fish With Vibrant, Global Flavors
It’s more difficult to grasp the importance of sustainable sourcing in seafood than it is in other food industries. For many, the ocean seems vast, limitless, and very far away from their kitchens. It may feel impossible to deplete the ocean’s fish populations, but in reality, unsustainable practices in the commercial fishing industry have led ...
What is Sustainable Packaging? Here’s What It Means at Thrive Market
These days, you can get pretty much anything shipped directly to your door. And while that convenience is tough to beat, it often comes with a steep cost to the planet: no sustainable packaging.
Challenge Yourself to a Plastic-Free July
This month isn’t just July — it’s Plastic-Free July, a time to challenge yourself to cut back on (or eliminate!) your plastic use. The Plastic Free Foundation started this global initiative to invite people to “be part of the solution to plastic pollution” by giving up single-use plastics for the month. Want to challenge yourself ...