Foundroot

08/24/2026

Our seed garlic is grown by Farragut Farm LLC in a remote, roadless bay about 25 miles north of Petersburg in Southeast Alaska. They are uncertified organic, caring for and improving the soil everyday. This is not your standard culinary garlic and has been meticulously bred by bulbils specifically for seed. Bulbil grown seed garlic is a long and laborious process that is significantly less likely to have soil borne disease.

Order now, shipping approximately September 20, Interior and Northern Alaska ships first. This garlic has thrived all over Alaska and we are so grateful to offer it again this year.

All other seeds 50% off, 10% off storewide.

https://foundroot.com/

Cultivate resilience from seed to table. From the remote corner of our Alaskan family farm to your home.

02/26/2026

Cozy morning at our retail shop. Now open Thursdays and Fridays 8am-1pm. Come through and get excited for the upcoming garden season!

02/20/2026

Oh hey. The Foundroot Shop is open for the season!

Winter hours: Thursday & Friday 8am-1pm

Look out for game nights and pop-up dinners coming in March. Probably movie screenings too if you buy lots of coffee and we can swoop the fancy projector Nick wants.

Our online store is in full swing as always, shipping daily.

Seeds are stocked, coffee is hot, vibes are cozy. Come through!

12/11/2025

❄️Cozy vibes over here.❄️

This is the last week of our holiday pop-up. 9am-2pm Thurs, Fri, Sat this week.

We’ve got zucchini muffins, rhubarb coffee cake, and chanterelle and Swiss quiche today. If you eat them up, we’ll bake more yummy things.

12/02/2025

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Want to shamelessly promote small businesses while advertising your holiday wish list? Get this out to friends and family (or screenshot your own from our website, we don’t judge).

We know you’ve heard this already, but times are rough for small businesses. We source beautiful, ethical items from small makers and farmers around the world. The struggle with tariffs is real. We believe in the products we sell, we hope we can keep selling them. Oh, and we just added all the amazing foodie items we have been carrying in The Foundroot Shop into the online store.

10% off for you and 10% of proceeds to World Central Kitchen through December 15.
10% off all Gift Certificates through December 31.
Shop online at www.foundroot.com.

You have been supporting us for nearly 14 years. Many of you have become friends. Thank you for caring about what we care about. We couldn’t do this without your support.

Happy holidays and peace from our home to yours.
♥ Nick & Leah

11/28/2025

We are open for our annual holiday pop-up! 10% off store wide and this year, we are donating an additional 10% of proceeds to World Central Kitchen. Shop small, local, and ethically this holiday season. Your purchases make a huge impact on our tiny family business and all the small growers, makers, and family businesses we support 💛.

Shop online 👉 www.foundroot.com
Free shipping over $125 in Alaska and $175 in the Lower 48.

Cultivate resilience from seed to table. From the remote corner of our Alaskan family farm to your home.

09/25/2025

This is our last week of regular service at The Foundroot Shop for 2025. We are open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning this week with seed garlic available for sale and 50% off all other seeds.

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported our little shop at the Southeast Alaska State Fair this season. Our team has been working their tushies off for the last 5 months to make our dream of a seed to table community gathering space a reality. It has been super cool and we are so proud of the beautiful food we have been able to make together. Huge thank you to our staff, Madi and Melody, and the community that has been supporting us.

We are so excited for what's to come. See you in December for our holiday pop-up. Now we rest for a bit.

08/26/2025

🎉🧄 Garlic pre-order is open! 🧄🎉

We are so darn proud to be offering farragutfarm garlic for the third season. The crop has been running behind (as all our gardens have been) but they just pulled the last of it and it’s live on our website.

This is all third generation seed, meticulously grown from bulbils to prevent soil born disease. We have graded it into two sizes this year. Bo and Marja played with spacing and the garlic with 4” spaces grew smaller than the ones at 6”. It’s healthy and happy and will size up with larger spacing. If you buy the smaller bulbs, you will get substantially more plants per pound. The large ones are what you are accustomed to seeing for seed garlic.

The garlic is curing and we have put approximate pre-order numbers up. We will add more in September once we get the final dry weight. Shipping will be approximately September 20, priority to Northern and Interior Alaska. Put a note on your order if you have an early frost.

We have about 50 pounds less than last year because of the cold, wet conditions. Shop now or forever hold your peace.

www.foundroot.com

07/23/2025

We are making Sour Pickles for our Reubens!

This is a fermentation. We do it to taste and like ours as pickle purests would call "half sours". They are usually done in 3-4 days in our cool Alaskan temperatures.

5 lbs pickles (Snip the blossom end or if you can't remember, snip both ends. It will get bitter if you don't)
1 tsp Black Peppercorns
1 tsp Mustard Seed
1 tsp whole Coriander
4 whole Cloves
3 Bay Leaves
a 2" sliver of cinnamon stick
4 cloves Garlic, sliced
2 Dill seed heads or 1 tsp Dill Seed

40g Kosher Salt : 1000g Water

It is best if the pickles can move around in the brine or it will taste strongly of the spices it is next to.

Come visit us TONIGHT for a true labor of love. We fermented the pickles, fermented the kraut, corned the beef, made the sauce.... Reubens, my friends, courtesy of Bubbe Leah.

07/08/2025

✨🍱 Wednesday Dinner! 6pm-8pm🍱✨

We made a Foundroot style Bento Box and we are kind of in love with it.

👉2 x Miso Sockeye, Roasted Pork, or Sh*take Mushroom Onigiri aka big pocket sushi (please forgive us Japanese friends 🤦🏻‍♀️)
-Tomagoyaki rolled sweet egg omelette
👉Sunomono sesame vinegar cucumber salad over Four Winds Farm greens
👉Sesame Chocolate Chip Cookie!

Yes, we can do this all gluten free. Yes, we will have a vegan option available.

$18 for the box, $25 for a third Onigiri added.

See you tomorrow night at the Southeast Alaska State Fair!

Want to eat dinner with us? It’s time to plan your visit to haines alaska 💛.