Bountfiul Gardens in Willits, CA has very good non-hybridized seeds, I have ordered from them twice, and they also have good books such as (never can remember the name exactly) “How to Grow More Vegetables (than you can imagine on less land than you thought possible)”. It’s a very good deep digging method than enables plants to grow much closer together with less water evaporation. The author, John Jeavons, also describes the nicest compost piles. I used to make them when I had garden space and they composted up so quickly.
(DH PROMISED he will cut trees so we can have a garden this summer and he better get on it!)
I think it was Bountiful gardens that I ordered some of my weed seeds from, for food.
That was a fun order, I was attempting to get food of any kind growing and some of the amaranth/pigweed family will grow enough for us and animals.
I did get a weed that grew 6 foot tall and the leaves were good enough to beat spinach, so I froze some and dehydrated a bunch of them.
The Jeavons book is good, I think he is the father of the deep digging methods, or at least one of the early pushers
of the method.
They also had a bean from India that would grow wild and of course I tried it here, but it didn’t go wild.
I would be dangerous, with my wild gardens, in an area that would grow, without my constant care.
Last week was the first time that I had been out in 11 months, rather a shock to see the changes in our valley in the past year, new buildings and signs of growth.
LOL, such an exciting life I lead.
I rather liked the thought of hiding gardens in the woods, even here in the desert, there are hidden springs, if one could go and plant their extra seeds near them, it might be interesting to see what survived the wild animals. and people..