Foundroot owners Nick Schlosstein and Leah Wagner won this year’s Path to Prosperity award. They are the fourth Haines business to win.

Foundroot, a local seed company and farm, is the fourth Haines business to win Spruce Root’s annual Path to Prosperity Award and $25,000 in consulting and technical assistance.

Foundroot sells open-pollinated seeds adapted to Alaska’s climate and has sent upward of 16,000 seed packets to more than 65 Alaskan communities and throughout the…