Kate MacQuarrie

Kate MacQuarrie was born and raised in and around Charlottetown and continues to live on the Island. She started her undergraduate degree in physics but quickly switched to biology to follow her passion. She completed both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Prince Edward Island and has been sharing her love of biology ever since.

Kate has cultivated a life where she lives her passion every day, in both her professional and personal life. She is the Director of Forests, Fish and Wildlife with the PEI Government Environment, Energy and Climate Action and she’s the human behind PEI Untamed and Women Shooters of PEI. Though Kate’s specialty is plant identification, she’s also an experienced trapper, fur handler, recreational hunter, and angler, and she has been foraging local plants for more than three decades.

Kate brings her wealth of knowledge and keen curiosity for the environment to her workshops and education outreach. Kate’s workshops provide information to all Islanders who are curious to learn more about the edible (and non-edible) plants around them. While some are tasty, some are toxic so it’s important to have a basic understanding of the difference.