Dan Rubin is a gardener, garden educator, and garden designer who is leading a range of local initiatives focused on food production, food distribution, and food security in Newfoundland and Labrador. He is an established author of four books; his articles on local gardening have appeared in Rural Delivery magazine and Gardens Canada.
He has led workshops and presented talks on season extension for more than 1000 participants, including two recent videos on Seed Starting and Seed Saving under contract to the national heritage seed organization Seeds of Diversity. Rubin's radio series, Uncle Dirt, ran 10 episodes on CHMR radio and is now online as a podcast sponsored by the website Fit to Eat.