TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2026
Program: Cooking with Herbs
This culinary presentation teaches participants the basics of how to cook using fresh herbs from their garden. Mrs. Weisensale provides an informative handout with herbal notes and recipes; identifies popular culinary herbs and their most common cooking usages; provides a demonstration of her favorite tools for working with fresh herbs in the kitchen and discusses how to store and preserve fresh herbs from the garden. Best of all, she facilitates an herbal tasting with samples of her favorite herbal dishes.
Speaker: Sheila Weisensale, culinary artist
Place: Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, 8000 Hermitage Rd, Henrico, 23228
Handicap parking available
Time: 9-10 a.m. Social hour and refreshments
9-9:30 a.m. Exhibits in place – Exhibit area closes promptly at 9:30 a.m.
10 a.m. Meeting begins
Hostesses: Missy Goode, Janice Whitehead
Artistic:
“What I need most of all are flowers, always, always.” - Claude Monet
Class I: Create a fresh spring arrangement with the brightest blooming flora.
Class II: Create a modern mass where the composition has the materials tightly massed featuring vibrant colors, bold contrast and compelling textures.
Modern Mass: A composition in which materials are tightly massed, with little or no space between components, featuring vibrant color blocks, bold contrast, and compelling textures. Floral materials are selected for their creative form, with restrained variety and little or no transitional material.
Characteristics: This style is structural, usually employing asymmetrical balance to create drama. Five to seven
groupings of floral materials are recommended, with each grouping typically used only once, being of varied size
and shape, and different in color from each other. Smaller components may be bunched to create a larger mass or grouping. Flower stems are not visible.
Containers: Modern containers with strong, simple lines, presenting a marked contrast to the floral material groupings.
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Class II: Create a modern mass where the composition has the materials tightly massed featuring vibrant colors, bold contrast and compelling textures.
Horticulture:
Class I: Daffodil
Class II: Any bloom from your garden along with its common and botanical names
Photography:
Class I: An image inspired by the wonder of spring, a picture of daffodils or other spring
blossom
Class II: Nature wins, a photograph of a native bird