About Me

Elizabeth Hudgins, BSc, MS

Like you, I am many things.

Unlike you, I am also a plant disease expert.

Here is how that happened:

I fell in love with fungus when I inadvertently took a plant pathology course as I was studying biology at University of Toronto in the 1990s.  The die was cast.  I worked for a while kicking stumps and doing nutritional assessments of plants grown in different composts.  That was fun but it didn’t have enough to do with pathology, so I took a 2-year trip to graduate school at Michigan State University to study and research a fungal disease of celery.  There are sick plants everywhere!  

Following my passion, I jumped at the chance to be the state diagnostician for plant health at Oklahoma State University and later for the province of British Columbia.  Alongside that lab work, I also taught introductory and diagnostic plant pathology for the Master Gardener program and have been an invited speaker to gardening groups, farmers, universities, and professional conferences across North America.   I worked for several years on biocontrol research at Kwantlen University and recently completed the Soil Food Web program. 

As a regular person, I am a mother, dancer, gardener, and volunteer for Vancouver Coastal Health.

 I look forward to sharing my passion for making the world better – one plant at a time – with you.