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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 - 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 [...]
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, [...]
The Super Pollinators program offers three models to suit every budget. All models include the same dynamic presentation and display. In CLASS BUZZY, one hotel is made per class. In TEAM BUZZY, students work in [...]