TIK - if I lived near you there’s nothing I would enjoy more than cooperative work on guerilla garden. I greatly admire seeing some work that has been done in inner cities toward using vacant spaces toward food production. At risk of breaking thread politics rules I must say this. Typically the politics of the folks doing those project ticks me off. This goes a good length toward me keeping Christian thoughts about those folks but it also motivates me as a Christian. Until the social welfare system kicked in feeding the hungry was a responsibility and we as Christians have forgotten we need to do that. I am very proud of a good friend of mine in the next county who brought this up to her church elders. Their church sits on 3 acres and is now up and going as a community garden.
Knowing your new situation, with the limited garden space, I might suggest approaching a house of worship of your choice that has some soil available to use. Even though that dirt would not be as secret, there might also be good connections for forming a like-minded prepping community.
I am a firm believer in community gardens providing it is "Self-Help", not public, tax payer supported "entitlements",; I don't believe in "giveme dats !"
Sometimes people need just a little encouragement to see that they they can control their own livelihood and fate, especially when it comes to gardening and good, healthy food .
I spent a decade in a Church which had its own welfare assistance which was 'work fare'; you received assistance from the Church and were paid for work effort, "no freebies !"
While employed full time as LEO,I volunteered and plowed a 4 acre field for corn, and then canned that corn in a Church cannery, and even delivered Church Welfare food
to needy families, both members and non-members who were caught between 'a rock and a hard place'.
There was only one proviso for Church Welfare : that you NOT be receiving State (tax payer) Public Assistance, and that you participate in Church "work fare".
In the cannery, I worked alongside both people who were receiving Church work fare, a President of a fortune 100 company, and you didn't know who was which,..and it didn't matter;
we were all there to help provide sustenance for those less fortunate than ourselves, and we had a job to do !
It was through this volunteer effort that I realized how dependent we all are on our food sources; all that it would take is a truckers strike, gasoline or diesel shortage,
collapsing infrastructure, falling bridges, civil upheaval, or a natural disaster (earthquake/ flooding) to interrupt our food supplies.
As a result I got into "prepping", long term food storage, gardening and food production, and the use of heritage heirloom seeds as well as the use of hybrid plants.
Don't forget that our forefathers created 'spring houses' for refrigeration, smoke houses for meat preservation, and 'root cellars' for crop longevity and personal safety.
Additionally, they salted and home canned, and pickled their foods for preservation.
See ? All our forefathers were all farmers and gardeners, and what we now, conventionally, call: "preppers" (AKA - prudent, preparing for the unknowns of the future)
T I K
(P.S.- the last entry about "unusual vegetable varieties" (dated 2008) was included in my guerilla garden as they all are listed as heirloom tomatoes (save the seeds for future crop).
My fishing buddy in New Hampshire still grows beans that his great-great-great grandfather grew.
He always retains and holds back, 1/3 of the crop for future crops; this way even in crop failure, he keeps the seed variety from generation-to-generation, etc.)