Written by Lyndi of nwafoodie

Today I want to talk about community.

Merriam-Webster defines community as “a people with common interests living in a particular area.”

I think I can safely say that we all joined the Arkansas Women Blogger’s community specifically for the reason that it gives us access to each other. Access to discover who is in our backyard.

We are here to learn, grow, share, and build on that community.

Last Tuesday, I had the extreme pleasure to meeting seventeen other Arkansas women bloggers at P. Allen Smith’s Moss Mountain Garden Home just outside of Little Rock at an event called #Bean2Blog. The Arkansas Soybean Board selected a cross-section of female bloggers from Arkansas to come to the farm and learn about the benefits of the humble soybean, one of Arkansas pride and joy bushel crops.

To say that we learned a lot that day on the farm would be an extreme understatement. Each one gathered knowledge in their unique way and then shared that knowledge by their own unique voices.

I loved meeting those ladies and wanted you to meet them, too.

Pour yourself a nice cool drink and pull up a chair or get comfy on the couch. Today you’re going to meet the #Bean2Blog ladies and hear their unique voices about the event. You are going to swoon over P. Allen’s gorgeous farmhouse and post a billion Pinterest photos for inspiration. You are going to laugh and fall in love with a real Arkansas farmer and immediately want to be adopted into his family.

You are going to want to hear all of their stories. I guarantee you will find a friend or two in the process.

I know I did.

Here’s a bonus. Some of these lovely ladies may be in your very own backyards.

Just waiting for you both to “meet” each other.

Enjoy the tour.

Northwest Arkansas Region
1. Stephanie McCratic, Evolved Mommy, “That’s Soy Controversial”
2. Lela Davidson, After the Bubbly, “Beans, Bloggers, and Big Ass Vegetables”
3. Amy James, Our Everyday Dinners, “Part IV. The People, The Boots.”
4. Kelly Stamps, Kellys Korner, “My Day at Moss Mountain”
5. Lyndi Fultz (me), nwafoodie “Learn, Share, Teach, and Continue Building on Lessons”

Northeast Arkansas Region
6. Sara Bird-Bogner, East 9th Street, “I’m a Little Country at the Garden Home Retreat”
7. Anita Stafford, Aunt Nubbys kitchen, “Bean2Blog 2012”

Central Arkansas Region
8. Alison Chino, Chino House, “Soaking it all in”
9. Ashley Ederington, The Ederington Family, “The Inaugural Bean2Blog Event”
10. Jerusalem Greer, Jolly Goode Gal, “ Soy Joy Pt2 Mucking Around the True Love Tree”
11. Johnice Hopson, Wynns Folly
12. Christi Ison, Fancy Pants Foodie
13. Tara Johnson, Taste Arkansas, “Bean2Blog”
14. JoBeth “Boots” McElhanon, Boots McBlog, “The Little Things, Part 2. The Farmhouse”
15. Kricia Palmer, Palmer Home, “A Simpler Life”
16. LaTonya Richardson, 40s, Reasons to Live, Love & Laugh Out Loud, “The Miracle Bean”
17. Cara Wilkerson, Living the Home Life, “Life Outside the Construction Site: Moss Mountain Farm”
18. Fawn Rechkemmer, Instead of the Dishes, “P. Allen Smiths #Bean2Blog Part 1”

Happy Reading!
Lyndi

Lyndi of nwafoodie is a girl who just happens to live in beautiful Northwest Arkansas. Much of her blogging inspiration comes from this gem of a place she refers to as the proverbial land of milk-and-honey. Read about her in the ARWB January 2012 blogger of the month autobiography.