He appears sooner or later at the teachers hut. It took quite a while...
Here's what the 0.49-update page (link above) says:
Garuik cooking (Req: Inviting Garuik home, between 22:00 and 24:00 at the player hut)
Who's garuik?
A new NPC. There is not much content about him yet. If you want to meet him you need to finish a quest that's related to a farm and Bareshade first.
