I have started a few myself. I also supply a local cafe that we frequent with homemade Tabasco sauce so I can be sure that there is something to spice up our food when we are there. I could stop growing completely tomorrow and I would still have a lifetime's supply of powders, flakes and sauces.
I have expanded my garden pretty much as big as it can get. I don’t have room for all of what I want to grow until I move to Texas on my recently purchase acreage.