NSW Environmental Educator of the Year 2024!!
Abbie Mitchell is very excited to have won the 2024 AAEE NSW Environmental Educator of the Year award. 'A huge thank you to all the wonderful support provided by my fellow educators, my [...]
2023 NSW Environmental Education Award Winner!
KCN is busting with pride for having won the 2023 Environmental Education Award for Business of the Year! It was fabulously exciting to have attended the award ceremony where the highlight was definitely getting to [...]
Kids Love Bees 4 Pre’s
Term 1 2022 and Bees 4 Pre's has liftoff! Thanks to all the preschools who participated in the Bees 4 Pre's workshop this term. It has been a lot of fun growing this program thanks [...]
Kids Connecting Nature on Playschool
Abbie from Kids Connecting Nature was thrilled to be part of the Green Team - in a special 'through the window' segment about Aussie Native Bees. Thanks to Playschool and the cool Kids involved for [...]
HOLLOW HOMES AT TARONGA ZOO
I was very lucky to spend a day at Taronga Zoo recently to film a story about the wonderful Aussie animals that appear in my book A Hollow is a Home. A huge thanks [...]
Native bees sharing insect hotel
Just before Christmas 2019, on a fine warm morning, I was thrilled to find 3 species of native bee each creating a nest in the same insect hotel. These photos show a fire-tailed resin [...]
Make Nest Boxes for Wildlife
I wanted to share these nesting boxes I made specifically for the greater, yellow-bellied and sugar gliders as well as eastern pygmy possums and smaller mammals. These were made to accommodate animals who have [...]
WELCOME TO MY NEW GUEST….
I have a very exciting new tenant in my insect hotel - a fire-tailed resin bee! She has been working for weeks collecting resources for her nest. While she is concentrating her efforts on [...]
Magnificent Minibeasts
Magnificent Minibeasts - Invertebrates are the backbone of the ecosystem! Invertebrates are endlessly fascinating and you never know what you might discover when you start looking. I was thrilled to meet this little fellow bumbling [...]
Art is a Buzz
Term 3 2018 has buzzed by with visits to schools all over the greater Sydney area. The workshops are pitched to student ability - from the super smart preschool kids at Sydney Grammar Prep School, [...]