This delightful venue, The Ker Place Herb and Kitchen Garden, was created in 2004 by, and is maintained by, the Master Gardeners of the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Visitors will learn the uses to which various herbs were put for both culinary and medical purposes, not only in the 19th , but also in the 21st and intervening centuries.

Try this unusual pizza recipe using

• 6 large fresh sage leaves
• 3/4 cup finely diced Danish Fontina
• 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
• 1/2 red onion, sliced thin into rings
• 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan

Brush a pizza crust lightly with olive oil. Scatter the Fontina and the blue cheese evenly over it, leaving a 1/2-inch border, and arrange the onion rings and the fresh sage leaves over the cheese. Sprinkle the pizza with the Parmesan and bake on the bottom rack of a 500° oven for 10 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the cheese is bubbling.