To examine alternative interpretations of the “instruction giver-receiver relationshipInstruction giver-receiver relationship,” I analyze eight cases of partnerships between agriculture and social welfare, in addition to two cases of personal autonomous gardeningGardening. For the eight partnership cases, I conducted semi-structured interviews with the directors of farming activities, who were staff members of support organizations responsible for instructing clients or trainees. For the two independent gardeners, I conducted unstructured interviewsUnstructured interviews to explore their process of skill acquisitionSkill acquisition. The interviews revealed that the directors did not explicitly expect their participants to be autonomous. Instead, they stated that clients should only do what they were capable of. Some cases involved participants who were independent of directors either constantly or occasionally, but the directors, as well as the participants themselves, could not articulate the nature of this autonomyAutonomy. This lack of clarity also applied to those independent gardeners. The key lesson drawn from this chapter aligns with the well-known proverb: “What one likes, one will do well.” By considering these findings from a different perspective, the only individual who emphasized the significance of autonomyAutonomy was myself. The rationale behind this emphasis is simple: no one should be deprived of the opportunity to “take directions from crops.”