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MormonTimes.com: Alpine youths enjoying a meaningful harvest

Published: Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 12:35 a.m. MDT
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ALPINE, Utah -- First they planted. Then tended. Then harvested.

Now, they're selling.

Members of the Alpine 10th Ward teachers quorum — and some of their friends — are winding up their summer project, "You Reap What You Sow."

Glade Tuckett, their adviser, had a 2 1/2-acre plot of land available, so he thought it would be a good project for the young men to find out first-hand how to work for a good purpose.

By all accounts, the effort has been successful, with a good harvest that included corn, tomatoes, squash, watermelons, peppers, cucumbers, cantaloupes and pumpkins.

As some quorum members loaded corn into a wagon last week, others searched for the remaining watermelons in the field.

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Joseph Wadsworth, 14, and the teachers quorum of the Alpine 10th Ward worked all summer raising crops on Glade Tuckett's farm.

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