Blessings from Planting a Garden
Wise old Saying: “Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
“Waste not, want not.”
President Spencer W. Kimball counseled:
“I hope that we understand that, while having a garden, for instance, is often useful in reducing food costs and making available delicious fresh fruits and vegetables, it does much more than this. Who can gauge the value of that special chat between daughter and Dad as they weed or water the garden? How do we evaluate the good that comes from the obvious lessons of planting, cultivating, and the eternal law of the harvest? And how do we measure the family togetherness and cooperating that must accompany successful canning? Yes, we are laying up resources in store, but perhaps the greater good is contained in the lessons of life we learn as we live providently and extend to our children their pioneer heritage.” (In Conference Report, Oct. 1977, p. 125; Ensign, Nov. 1977, p. 78.)
This heritage includes teaching our children how to work.