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Summer is in full swing and so are all the fabulous gardens in my neck of the woods. I’m pretty sure the gardens are in full bloom in your neck of the woods too, so I vote we take advantage of all the amazing produce summer has to offer and make a crazy awesome salad with fried goat cheese on top! Whatcha think? Let’s get into it!<\/p>\n

The last few months I’ve been all up and down the west coast and been privileged enough to see some fabulous community gardens in various cities. I’ve teamed up with Scotts Miracle Gro<\/a>\u00a0to make this garden inspired salad and to learn all about this new initiative of theirs called GRO1000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Basically they’ve committed to developing community gardens throughout the country and are on their way to creating 1,000 community gardens<\/a> and green spaces within the next few years. I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a pretty wonderful goal for such a prominent company!<\/p>\n

Not only are they providing grants to hundreds of communities, but they are educating youth and promoting sustainability in our communities, something that has been super important to me, especially since returning from Alaska and learning about all the sustainable things going on up north. Pretty awesome, huh? I knew you’d agree.<\/p>\n

So with all this garden and green space inspiration all around the country, I created a recipe with some of the produce you could find in some of these gardens right this very moment. Arugula, summer squash, peaches, and summer tomatoes all toss together with a garlic balsamic vinaigrette and topped with a few rounds of fried goat cheese to give it even more pizazz. So let’s make this salad, and feel free to check out some of the links above if you want to learn even more about GRO1000 or how to get involved!<\/p>\n

I’ve resolved to try to not kill my garden this year (I need to remember to water it) and try to grow at least a full herb garden so at the very least, I can be self sufficient when it comes to harvesting basil, mint, tarragon etc! Keep your fingers crossed for me<\/p>\n

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