"We brought a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - they're a little squished - peaches that aren't quite ripe, and I made pesto," Ms. Gibson said.

There's a little kitchen in the garden cottage, where children make pesto from the basil they grow, spaghetti sauce and gazpacho from the tomatoes and peppers.

Harvest the basil and make pesto.

Ms. Waters uses the mortar and pestle for grinding salt, making pesto, combining herbs and creating savory pastes.

A workshop on making pesto, tomorrow at 2 P.M. Materials fee: $15.

I was thinking about buying some fresh pasta and making pesto.

Pinch leaves off the basil plants and make pesto.

My way of making pesto may not be strictly Italian, but the way I serve it is.

As far as Solari is concerned, basil, the minty herb used to make pesto, grows nowhere else on earth.

Students at Public School 11 in Brooklyn harvested their own basil and made pesto.