Foundroot

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

🎁✨Post this to your stories!✨🎁

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 💛.

07/05/2025

Hey locals! We are buying rhubarb for $2/lb in store credit! You can use it for ANYTHING we sell in store or online 🙌. Here’s the info 👇:

👉 We prefer our rhubarb pulled, not cut, with the cup at the bottom.

👉 Leaves should be removed just above the stem so the top slightly fans out.

👉Firm stems only. If it’s started to go off and the stems are weak or hollowing, we can’t accept it.

👉Clean! We won’t take it if you haven’t rinsed it.

Come in any time our shop is open and we will weigh it out and give you a gift certificate. If it’s really busy, we may need you to swing back by when we have a chance to sort it.

Thanks for keeping our lemonade and coffee cake habit alive and well!

06/03/2025

Did you know that after 13 years in business, we opened our first brick and mortar shop last year? If you have been wondering why a seed company has been posting baked goods and coffee, well, here's an explanation now that we have finally gotten our feet under us.

The Foundroot Shop is many things. First, we needed an office to serve as our distribution center now that the business has grown and we are shipping all over the country year-round.

We also wanted a place for customers to get to touch all the beautiful kitchen and garden supplies we carry. Linen, wood, forged tools... you need to touch these things.

The space we took over used to be a bakery. No, there wasn't any kitchen equipment left but the vibes were still there. And if you have followed us at all over the years, you know we love baking vibes. We are also in the process of restarting our farm and you know what a seed farm has a lot of? Excess produce. To put in baked goods.

It's really a "if you give a mouse a cookies" scenario. We also just need more places to gather in our small town. So yeah, we accidently started a not-cafe. Test kitchen? Coffee bar? Mercantile? I don't know.... it's really cute though and we are opening for real for real this week. I think we have had a year's worth of soft openings trying to get our feet under us... Our community is very forgiving.

The Foundroot Shop at the Southeast Alaska State Fair Hours:

Thursday 7am-12pm
Friday 7am-12pm
Saturday 8am-1pm

Every other Wednesday evening during the Dalton City Limits concert series. And extra during special events happening at the Fair.

We are trying to source really cool, ethical, farmer-direct ingredients. Whole foods. Lots of butter. Come through.

05/23/2025

Hey ho, here we go!

The Foundroot Shop be open this weekend at Southeast Alaska State Fair.

We will be serving homemade sausage rolls (yes, puff pastry and all) and fresh baked chocolate chip cookies at Beerfest.

The espresso machine is on✨ ☕️✨!!
Fair trade, organic, farmer-direct coffee locally roasted by our beloved Canadian neighbors up north.

Come back Sunday for coffee, carbs, and shopping 9am - 1pm. We will have scratch made baked goods with ingredients from our family farm along with all the garden, kitchen, and foodie things. And coffee. Piles of coffee.