Husbanding

verb

1. To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.

   "For my means, I'll husband them so well, / They shall go far. — Shakespeare."

2. To conserve.
3. To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
4. To provide with a husband.
5. To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.