Native Plants & Threats Workshop

Marie was previously a rural journalist and then worked part-time as a QEII regional representative from 1992 until 2007 in the Nelson-Marlborough, West Coast and Hawke’s Bay regions.

Marie covenanted her lifestyle block at Bayview, Napier to protect pits and middens on the property, prevent subdivision, and protect indigenous restoration plantings on the site. She currently chairs New Zealand Plant Producers Inc, the nursery industry body, and the Hawke’s Bay Botanical Group, and is a trustee on The Gwavas – Puahanui Charitable Trust.

In 2018, Marie won the NZI Rural Women New Zealand Business Awards supreme award and in 2020 was awarded a QSM for horticulture and native revegetation. Marie set up and jointly owns Plant Hawke’s Bay, a native plant nursery growing ecosourced wholesale native plants near Napier.