Get into heirloom seeds. I’m saving an heirloom green bean, okra, pumpkin, butterbean, cowpea & watermelon variety. The old man I got them from was on one of his last years gardening. They would’ve died out if someone hadn’t carried them on. Best thing is, they’re suited to my climate cause they’ve been genetically selected for hundreds of years from other folks in my area who were also carrying them on to the next generation. Most of these were pre-civil war seeds