Hi! Just want to pop in and share some information regarding pollinators and bees! Honeybees are actually a pretty aggressive pollinator and if you aren't interested in beekeeping for honey, I'd suggest doing a little research about the pollinators in your area. Kaci, since you're keeping bees for honey this is more for anyone perusing the comment section. I also feel like because of your location, building out habitat for native pollinators and birds may be absolutely imperative to the health of your immediate ecosystem. I'm not trying to criticize you for doing your part and I actually want to congratulate you for doing what you can! However, since you are someone who owns land that you are able to tend to; I suggest building out more of a habitat of native plants to your area to sustain all pollinator species as well as native birds. Arkansas has some incredible native plants like milkweed (butterflies! yay!) and wild petunias as well as carolina rose and those plants will introduce things that will rebalance ecosystems. Please research ways to rebalance the ecosystem in a productive long term way because planting for honeybees is only the beginning. :)

Kaci, thanks so much for the bee talk. They are so critical to our food system and are “beeing” challenged all the time. Your new cardigan is AMAZING!

Give us ALL the bee talk! I appreciate your familys’ hard work and investment. Also happy to see we already have many of the flowers/ herbs you mentioned as helping the little guys. That pullover! ❤️✨

I do not have the privilege of having a bee hive and caring for them. I truly enjoyed hearing your explanation because it transported me from my recliner to your farm. I felt as if I was there with you. Keep sharing your farm life with us. It is very enjoyable.

Thoroughly enjoyed the bee update. My Daddy was a beekeeper and I worked for the NC state Apiculturist. I have considered getting a couple of hives but at 70, my knitting and my garden is enough.

I LOVED the bee update!!! I would absolutely love more bee updates!!!!

Thank you for advocating for our bees! They are so incredibly important and we need to be aware of the impact of pesticides and how it correlates to the loss of our hives. Love your podcast and new sweater!!

You’re such a warm person with such an intuitive intelligence about colour and shapes, Kaci. I could listen to you talking about knitting, spinning, gardening, beekeeping and sewing all day. Thanks for sharing with us!☺️🥰

I loved hearing about your bees. I love that you mentioned the seed packets that we could plant and do our part. Loved the cardigan you are wearing, so colorful. Seems like you could wear it with any color.

I loved hearing about the bees and I know that clover honey must be amazing! My husband is the green thumb in our family and is very into native plants to help the bees, birds, and butterflies. We’re eagerly awaiting everything to fully bloom here in Maryland. I loved seeing the bees around our coneflowers last year.

Thank you Kaci for all the sweet insights into your projects and telling us about your bees. I will definitely plant some bee friendly plants this year! ❤

Gorgeous cardigan Kaci!! Love the chat about bees! Enjoyed the interlude outdoors. The long dress is going to be perfect for summer, and the colour is great for spring.

Kaci, thanks for shining a light on the impact of pesticides on not just honeybees but also our native pollinators, and some tips for planting to support pollination ❤ I’m also a hobby beekeeper though up north in Michigan so I’m sure your girls are way ahead of us. Wishing you a happy bee (and warm weather knitting) season ahead! 🐝

We have a small acreage in SD and are also surround by fields. Our garden did so poorly last year and we are pretty sure it had to be from the crop duster plane that sprayed the neighbors field. It's so bad for the bees, our health and the few animals we have. I don't know what the answer is but I think we, as a nation need to take a few steps back and think about what has happened to our health as a nation.🐝

I loved seeing more about your bees! I would love to see some honey cultivating when it’s time too. I love to wear my Duckfeet Mols with my hand knit socks. ❤️

I love hearing about your bees!!! My dad had bees when I was growing up and honey is a part of my daily indulgence! Keep up the good work

Lovely episode and I loved seeing another English style knitter 😊

Your bees look great! I used to have a hive. I’m concerned about pesticides! I loved my ladies and miss them. Thank you for advocating for them. ❤️

Thanks for sharing about the bees, Kaci! Love seeing all your gorgeous projects as well :)

For plant fibers and superwash I like to use a "russian join". You cross the yarns and "weave in" the tail back into the yarn itself.

I loved your bee segment. Love bees and grow things they love; I have lots of catmint. Your combo spin is beautiful, and I am excited to see it transformed into a sweater, I like wearing my handknit socks with my "Duck feet" shoes. My perfect spring outfit is a comfy dress with anklets and a sweater. Spring isn't quite as advanced as where you are but seeing yours tells me it is right around the corner. Love how you let your dandelions grow, for the bees, I am sure.

Loved hearing about the bees!

Sounds like some of the plants bees like are also plants that can be used for natural dyeing!! Feels like worlds colliding 😊

Loved your bee talk and I soooo agree..with our misuse of the environment we have harmed many bees which have a super important place in our lives!

Loved hearing about the beekeeping side of things and seeing the footage. It's a very interesting topic and would love to see more.

The sound of freedom (military noises) is a thing here on the NC coast. Cherry Point gives us jets and helicopters, and we get the gunfire sounds from Camp Lejeune. Some of the heavy firing shakes my house.

Okay, your Pohjola is just gorgeous! Can't wait to see it finished!

I love hearing about the bees. I grew up with my dad raising bees, and yeah, he lost a lot of hives. :( I get so excited seeing bees in my gardens. :D They also have seed mixes designed for pollinators! Also love the cardigan, it looks so fun!

Thanks Kaci loved the walk outside with you and the beautiful landscape and colors 😃👏🏼🧶

Thank you for doing the 🐝 chat…we love bees!

I love your tweed cardigan.

I grow catnip and catmint and the bees seems to love it a lot! I always feel bad in the fall when I have to cut them back before the snow comes. Love the bee update!

I love to hear about the bees!

Thanks for sharing more of what you do as a beekeeper. It’s interesting to learn a bit more about them.

I’m a beekeeper and knitter, too! Last year was my first year. I lost both hives over the winter. However, I learned a lot and as bad as I felt I’m going to try again this year. Loved hearing about your passion for the bees and your video of them.

So enjoyed hearing about the bees!! I’ve planted some flowers for them and left the clover and dandelions growing! Congrats on how well you’re doing on your goals so far this year. 🙌🏻🙌🏻

This was a great episode, Kaci. The knits were beautiful. I have always wanted to knit a cardigan this sound's like one I could accomplish. I appreciate all the information that you give on your projects and if that project is good for a certain skill level. Loved all the bee information and seeing your hives. Take care

I can hear you talk more about bees!! I love bees and how powerful they are for everything. I love your spinning and I’m going to try to spin for a travelers hoodie too! Love how your step by step cardigan came out ❤

Thank you so much for your previous advice about holding the purl yarn in the right hand for the three colour parts of the Pohjola. It made everything so much faster and it looks exactly the same!

Definitely interested in hearing about the bees! Thank you!🐝🐝🐝

Love hearing about beekeeping as we are planning to start our own in the fall. This spring my partner will begin a course 🥰

Another interesting and lovely video, Kaci. We have fairly large garden areas, and most of my plantings are for birds, butterflies, and pollinators of all types. I'm adding more medicinal plants as well. I hope that your beehives do well this year, and that you get loads of delicious honey! 😊

Love your opinions on bees and harmful things floating around in the air. I’ve tried twice to keep bees but they prefer the cottonwoods behind my house to their hives. Keep being a champion for the bees ❤

Oh I can so relate…I live near an AFB in WA, we don’t constantly have the loud planes overhead, because they rotate around the whole Seattle area to mildly annoy everyone. 😂😂😂. But when they come, boy oh boy do they come for about 7-10 days. My dogs don’t notice, so that’s lucky!! ✈️

Kaci, I enjoyed the bee talk so much. Please continue to share more about beekeeping as it helps us viewers build a more rounded view of you. Thank you for spending so much of your time making these podcasts for us.

I love that you are sharing about your bees and the threats to bees. Maybe you could weave this into your work with a KAL prize being some of your honey someday. I would love that! I might give myself tendinitis trying to win that! I didn’t have the yarn to join your Pohjola KAL, sadly, but I am watching for the next KAL. Love your content/creations!

Not bored about the bees AT ALL! Super interesting to learn more about how we can support them (and other wildlife) by not using any pesticides and by planting a large variety of flowering plants. We participate in "No-Mow May," where we don't cut our lawn until early June to get the bees a head start. Last year I figured out that I need to weed-whack the higher-growing grasses to keep the yard looking decent while still allowing the low-flowering plants to feed the bees.

I love 💛🖤💛 hearing about your bees

Love the bee content. 🐝

Thank you Kaci busy 🐝 for another colorful, lively episode 🖤💛🖤 Seems like every time I’m watching an American podcast these days, I come across another Noro Madara in color Sake cardigan! I reckon this rainbow tweed must be perfectly matching lots of outfits. I couldn’t ignore your hesitation pronouncing the French city name Montpellier: the T and R are mute; it’s pronounced [monpelié]. Cheers from Bordeaux 🇫🇷 Marie.

You are not alone, I too have always had trouble deciphering my left from my right. When I was eight I was in a car accident and it snapped both bones in my right arm which left a pretty interesting scar. Ever since then I always looked for the scar to know which arm is right.

I enjoy hearing about your 🐝 and knitting.

Hi Kaci, I love the bee content ❤ And for shure the hole knitting contents. Thanks!

Loved catching up with you today Kaci! Now it sounds like I might have to start chatting with you about the Heirloom Quilt Cardigan to bring it back to the top of the knitting list. 😜

I admire all the hard worker bee ladies every day 🐝

No no, we ARE interested-or should be, everyone needs to be aware how important bees are to our very survival!! 🐝 You might enjoy reading the series of Sherlock Holmes-spinoff novels by Laurie R King, starting with the Beekeeper’s Apprentice. They’re really well-written, interesting, historical novels (including various exotic settings) but the reason I mention them is that beekeeping by the Sherlock character features prominently in the first few books. And the main character/heroine is a fabulous, sassy, fearless, brilliant young woman, Mary Russell. 🎉

I have a fun pair of blue suede Mary Janes that are perfect with handknitted socks. Great thrift store find.

The Pohjola is coming along so beautifully!! I've never knit a colourwork sweater before but I am really missing out! I think I need to get over my fear of colourwork and give it a try.

Wawak is amazing customer service for me so far! They’re good for it

What you mentioned at the end about not being driven to buy everything that pops on the knitting channels REALLY made me feel good and boosted my resolution to use up what I already have. Bee talk was great. Love your karma! Thanks

So glad to hear you’re planning to knit the Traveler Hoodie! I recently knit one out of FDF Recollect and I could not love it more. But I haven’t seen any podcasters knit it yet!

Another Bee Safe tip: When purchasing plants/starts at the nursery or big box stores avoid plants grown with Neonicotinoids (it should say so on the back of the plant tag). "Pollinator Safe or Bee-Safe" is the rational behind this. Some states have banned plants treated with insecticides outright though take a peek because the pretty flowers we may be purchasing could be causing harm. 🐝🐞🌻

I loved hearing about your beekeeping! In my neighborhood in Portland, OR there are more yards every year that are full of wildflowers instead of grass, which I just love for both environmental and aesthetic reasons. Regarding the silk content of the Madara, I think it's just the colorful neps/tweed bits.

thank you for sharing about your bees!

When I used to live in the south of France, when pesticides were spread over the wine/grape production lands the nearby schools would be closed. It radicalised me haha especially as I come from a region with very strong small scale organic production. The wine production was just so destructive to the whole biodiversity of the region. it was truly gutting. Now with the wild fires getting stronger, we are seeing the limits of mono-cultures.

Another awesome vid! Thanks for advocating for our bees!! And all your knits are so beautiful and inspiring. And just an FYI - I have pretty good hearing and I cannot hear the C130 - and I’m really trying 😂 I’m sure it’s distracting to you but it’s not bothering us - or at least me. 😊 bless you for sharing your creative practice with us!!

Hi, Kaci another great podcast thank you for sharing about the bees and some of the difficulties in being bee keeper, loved your sweater am anxious to get the pattern when it's released I have told my self that this year I am going to try and use my stash but I have found it difficult because I don't always have enough yarn to make a certain project. Your colorwork sweater is beautiful 😊

Hi Kaci, it was really interesting what you had to say about the bees!

I am very interested in the bees and passionate about promoting bee health. Keep us informed.

The absolute joy I felt waking up to this! So excited to spend some time with you

That cardigan is an absolute dream, especially with your yarn choice!

Thanks for the shout out friend. I am very curious to hear how you like your dress when it's done, and you're right, weaving in ends with that yarn is a beast, and I don't mind weaving in ends.

I loved seeing your bees and hearing about them. The cardigan is beautiful. What beautiful land you live on. I am wondering if you have ever been to Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge not far from Eureka Springs. If I ever get my legs back under me I plan to go see some amazing animals there. It's an amazing place I would recommend to your family.

As usual, I love your fiber projects. I also really appreciate your comments on the plight of bees (if people only understood how vital they are) and thoughtful consumption.

I just found your channel. (Beginner spinning) Hello neighbor! (East Texan here) It's so pleasant to hear a normal, southern draw. I am addicted to all of your videos. I did in fact take one of my existing garden beds and plant all wild flowers and herbs, in no particular order. Peace and Blessing to you and yours!

I’m so happy to hear about your bees. Ours didn’t make this year😥. It’s such a struggle these day.

I loved the bee update! ❤

Love your step by step cardigan. I have been looking for a basic easy to wear cardigan pattern and I think this one is perfect. I hope the pattern comes out soon. Also I listen using headphones and can’t hear the jets. Don’t stress

I had to check the date on this video due to the weather and flower shots. It’s still snowing here in Montana 😂😂 I love all the colors you choose for your projects. I have a very similar color palette ❤❤

Love you sharing the Bee info. The more folks hear, the more they will be aware

Love your videos! I also have that issue with left and right and I have learned it is a kind of dyslexia. It adds an extra layer to my job as well when I’m dealing with clients injuries.

Totally interested in your bees, thank you for the tips ❤

Kaci, I love the colour of the dress you're knitting! It's going to look beautiful on you with one of your lovely shawls on a cooler summer evening 🤩😍🥰

there is a glue for yarn.you can put a drop on youre knot. youre knits are so great!! greetings from the netherlands😍😍😍

I loved the bee overview!

Hello from Swansea, Illinois.

Thanks for sharing about the bees. They are amazing little creatures!

Thank you for the spot about the bees and beekeeping. I would love it if you shared a couple of minutes about your farm life every episode. I find that equally as interesting as your magnificent fine crafting. thank you for your time and efforts. It can't be easy for a young wife and mother with a career outside the home as well.

I swear every time I sit outside on the phone, here come the dang C130s! But, I live one town over from LRAFB, so that's how it goes I guess!

Enjoyed your bee update! I love bees, hate wasps. Our townhouse complex has "bee flowers" everywhere and also vegetable and herb gardens as well as bee water bath. Still mostly see wasps 😡

I’m a radiologist and I always have a really hard time with left and right! 😂 It’s doesn’t help that scintigraphy is the other way round as well. 🤪

Super cute buttons 🤩

I always love your episodes! Would you ever consider giving us a plant tour?

I've only been knitting a little over a year and just completed my first adult sweater last month. I want to make a cardigan and I think this will be the pattern for my first attempt because it will have the tutorial video with it. Now to pick the yarn while waiting for the pattern to release...😅. Can't wait to see your finished dress!

Love the bee talk!! Also all of your knits are working up beautifully as usual 😊

YESS BEES!

There is a really great video on joining non wool yarn together during a project from Mel Makes Stuff. She is so brilliant and the video shows very detailed processes for doing that. You might check it out for the dress you are knitting!

Your cardigan is beautiful. And the bee talk was a bonus.❤

It was so good to hear about your bees. We have considered it, but I don’t feel like we have enough space or knowledge about how to raise them, so I’m getting ready to do some extreme research 🧐

16:59 hi granola girl, love your sweater 🥰