Young children love gardening. For parents, a home vegetable garden provides a great opportunity to teach children some of life’s most valuable lessons. In October 1977, LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball provided this instruction:
“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.”