Food Security Bundle

This bundle is for people who want to be able to harvest nutritious food from their garden if sh*t hits the fan. These varieties can be planted now, and pretty much left to do their thing until you need them (some weeding, mulching, and watering may be required depending on on your conditions).

These varieties are all work horses in the garden, providing valuable nutrition, calories, and diversity to your diet. Feel prepared for the future, while enjoying low-maintenance, delicious, and productive veggies in the meantime.

Suitable for hardiness zones 6-12.

This bundle contains a mix of perennial vegetables and self-seeding annuals:

1. Homesteader's Kaleidoscopic Perennial Kale Grex - a very vigorous kale variety that pumps out tasty leaves and baby broccoli every spring. It's drought and pest-tolerant, and leaves can be harvested pretty much every month of the year. Perennial and self-seeding. 
2. Sylvetta Arugula - leaves are milder in spring and fall and become spicier in hot weather. Great in salads, on top of pizza, etc. A perennial that will also self seed.
3. Pink Skirret Mix - an excellent and tasty carbohydrate source. A carrot/potato substitute in the kitchen, and incredibly sweet. Roast, mash, add to soups, etc. Harvest roots year round once established, but the best time is fall through spring. Leaves can also be eaten like a mild parsley substitute. Leave the plants in the ground for several years and dig up when needed. Snip off the largest roots to eat, then replant the crown. Will also self-seed if allowed.
4. Delft Perpetual Leek - harvest leeks fall through early spring. Cut at the base to harvest, and baby leek will resprout from the roots. Any you don't harvest will bloom to feed pollinators in summer, and make seeds. And guess what- baby leeks will still resprout from the roots of plants that have gone to seed!
5. Flashback Calendula - cheerful edible and medicinal flowers bloom almost year round in mild climates. Add petals to soups, salads, and broths to soothe the digestive tract. Infuse whole flowers into oil to make skin healing oils and salves. Also a great flower to bring pollinators to your garden to increase productivity of your other veggies. A short-lived perennial, but will self-seed reliably.
6. Miner's Lettuce - one of the earliest leafy greens- a mild flavour with succulent leaves that's great in salads, salads, or as a snack while gardening. Will reseed and pop up next spring, and expand to create a lush patch of leafy greens.
7. Rainbow Orach - a tall and vigorous heat-tolerant leafy green that tastes similar to spinach. Will self-seed and come back annually down to zone 2. 
8. Seombadi Korean Celery - harvest leaves and stems year round, including in the middle of winter, even under snow. Use leaves and thin stems like parsley or celery leaf to add flavour to salads and soups. Excellent flavour, much milder than lovage.
9. Showy Milkweed - a drought tolerant native plant with edible shoots, buds, and flowers. Pollinators love them.
10. Stinging Nettle - very easy to grow, very high in nutrients. Use tops and leaves cooked in place of spinach, or dry for a medicinal tea. Harvest with gloves, and the sting goes away once cooked or dried. Plant in a shady moist corner of your yard and ignore it until you need it. The patch will expand via underground runners. Avoid harvesting leaves after the plant has gone to seed, but you can chop or mow down the plants around August to get another flush of fresh leaves in the fall.