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Reasons to Garden

One of the ways you can improve your family’s health is to have a garden. There are many ways that this can improve your family’s overall health. It improves your diet, as you eat food that you grow and protect. It also helps the family to spend time working outside everyday. It is pretty late in the summer to plant a garden, but depending on the area that you live you may be able to still get in a fall garden. You may also want to begin planning your garden for next year. You will want to winterize your garden, … Continue reading →

Plan Your Garden

I remember hearing as a child the importance of having a garden. Spencer W. Kimball encouraged every family to have a garden for several reasons. A garden is great opportunity to save money and become more self-reliant. A garden also gives you the opportunity to work together as a family. This is the perfect time of the year to begin to plan your garden. While it is too cold to plant outside, you can still be doing things to prepare for your garden. You may consider the vegetables you want to grow. If you live in an apartment or have … Continue reading →

RS/EQ: How Does Your Garden Grow?

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In the ten years I have been a member of this church, I knew that we were counseled to garden. I’ve heard a number of good reasons. But until I read this lesson, I did not know that we were so strongly encouraged to plant and produce. I really loved the quote from President Kimball on gardening. “We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property.” Not just a little bit, or a couple of flowers and a tomato plant or two. “All…that you feasibly can.” I’m not completely certain we need to … Continue reading →

Five Areas to Consider When Planning Your Food Storage

It is the beginning of a new year, and you may have decided that this year you will begin to build up your food storage. This can be a daunting task, not to mention expensive. Before you rush out to buy a year’s supply of dehydrated food you should consider some important factors. There is a lot to be said for the food storage that is based on the pantry principle. It is also important to consider other factors when storing your food. Here are five areas to look at when starting to plan your food storage. 1) The most … Continue reading →

Food Storage: Plan According to the Seasons

You may have noticed that you eat different meals with different seasons. In the United States, we are entering the comfort foods season. This means a lot of heavy home cooked food, like soups, stews, and potatoes. When you are planning your food storage you should take into consideration the different seasons and the types of foods you would like to prepare. You should then stock up and rotate using these foods at the appropriate time. In the summer people tend to eat lighter fresher foods. You may rely heavily on farmer’s markets, and fresh produce from the grocery store. … Continue reading →

Plan Next Year’s Garden Now

The fall is a great time to begin to plan and prepare next year’s vegetable garden. You can take important steps to promote a healthy and successful garden for next year. Here are five tips for preparing for next year’s garden today. 1) Fall is the best time of year to prepare the soil for next year’s garden. To begin you should pull up and remove any plants from your garden. You may choose to till them under instead. If you do this, make sure that the plants are disease free. You can also add compost to the soil, and … Continue reading →

June 2008 Preparedness Goals

For June’s preparedness goals, we are going to focus on what you need to store. This is really just getting a plan together. You will store different things then I store. Each situation is unique. You should put together an overall plan, but I a going to divide it into three sets of questions you should ask yourself, and then give you a challenge on what you should purchase this month. 1) First think of your three month food supply. The church counsels us to store three months of food that we eat on a regular basis. This food should … Continue reading →

February 2008 Preparedness Goals

Tonight at our Enrichment meeting we had a discussion of what provident living really means. It was interesting to hear the input of so many different people. In addition to the food storage, there were many other aspects in which provident living can affect your life. This month’s goals are going to focus on bringing provident living more into your life. 1) One way to increase your provident living is to live a thrifty lifestyle. This would include using your food storage well, and not wasting it. Additionally you may find that you can save money on clothing or heating. … Continue reading →

RS/EQ: Provident Living – Applying Principles of Self-Reliance and Preparedness

Lesson #11 in our Spencer W. Kimball manual this year was entitled, “Provident Living – Applying Principles of Self-Reliance and Preparedness.” President Kimball had the opportunity to work both at a bank and a store before his call to the apostleship, and he was awestruck at the amount of things people bought on credit. (In this lesson, he uses the phrase “on time,” meaning that the payments would be made over time, but I prefer to say “on credit,” so as to be perfectly clear.) He said it amazed him to see people walk down the street wearing clothes and … Continue reading →

Embrace Provident Living

We have been counseled to live providently. But what exactly does that mean? I am sure that many within the church automatically think of food storage when it comes to provident living, but in reality it means much more. Provident has several definitions, which include planning for the future and frugal living. It is important that we embrace the many definitions of provident living. The church has counseled us to live within our means. This means to spend less than you make. It also means to avoid going into debt. If you have accumulated debt, it means making the changes … Continue reading →