It is plain that the farmers are planning on holding out for a higher price down the road, not forever, although you could take them to a cannery and have them canned to last 20 years if you wanted to hoard them for your own personal use.
If you buy heirloom open pollinated seeds, you don’t have to worry about some conglomerate’s rules. The companies who sell open pollinated seeds won’t bother you, and in fact sometimes will even give you info on how to save your seeds to use again.
It all depends on whether you want to do what it takes to be independent, or be beholden to the gonglomerate.
“If you buy heirloom open pollinated seeds,...”
I did get heirloom seeds sealed for long term storage and it was suggested to freeze them for even better storage so they are in the freezer.
I’m looking at large containers with wheels that have wire to hold tomatoes up and other crops like pole beans. I could put a number of those on the raised outside deck. They also have that method of watering from the bottom up.