Dan Jason

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Dan Jason is the founder and owner of Salt Spring Seeds, a mail order seed company that specializes in heirloom varieties of vegetables and plants. Popular varieties include garlic, beans, tomatoes, lettuce, and grains. The company, founded in 1988, has stocks of many unusual seeds including over 150 tomato varieties.

Dan Jason was born in on July 22, 1946 in Montreal, Quebec. Jason currently lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. He was involved in the founding of Seeds of Diversity Canada and the Seed and Plant Sanctuary for Canada, both are seed banks whose mission is to preserve varieties of vegetables and crops. He has written several books including The Whole Organic Food Book: Safe, Healthy Harvest from Your Garden to Your Plate, and most recently "Saving Seeds as if Our Lives Depended on it".

Jason is active in food politics, being an outspoken opponent of genetically modified seeds, patents on living organisms, and industrial agriculture in general. He frequently gives lectures at environmental and horticultural events in British Columbia.