The Mythical "Crisis Garden" Meets The Truth

I think anyone who frequents Talk Radio, especially Glenn Beck, has heard the "1 acre Crisis Garden Starter Kit". The website looks like it was designed by a 5th grader, and the price is high. $300.00 to be exact.

The pull is that the seeds in this starter kit are non hybrid, meaning the 2nd generation seeds coming from the resulting plant life in your first garden and be planted to successfully grow more plants, and so forth and so on. So, where did this entrepreneur get his seeds?

One website shows a purchase of a decent starter pack for under 50$ which entails:

01. Slenderette Bush Beans or Contender Bush Beans, 2 oz
02. Golden Wax Beans, 2 oz
03. Green Arrow Peas or Early Frosty Peas, 2 oz
04. Golden Bantam Sweet Corn, 2 oz
05. Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans, 2 oz
06. Detroit Dark Red Beets, 1/8 oz
07. Nantes Coreless Carrots, 1/8 oz
08. Marketmore 76 Cucumber, 1/8 oz
09. Cherry Belle Radish, 1/8 oz
10. Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach, 1/8 oz
11. Waltham 29 Broccoli, 1/8 oz
12. Copenhagen Market Early Cabbage, 1/8 oz
13. Hales Best Jumbo Cantaloupe, 1/8 oz
14. Green Flesh Honey Dew Melon, 1/8 oz
15. Iceberg Head Lettuce, 1/8 oz
16. Super Sioux Heirloom Tomato or Rutgers Heirloom Tomato, 1/2 gram
17. Beafsteak Tomato, 1/2 gram
18. Sugar Pie Pumpkin, 1/8 oz
19. Golden Zucchini, 1/8 oz
20. Crimson Sweet Watermelon, 1/8 oz
21. Bouquet Dill, 1/8 oz
22. California Wonder Bell Peppers or Yolo Wonder Bell Peppers, 1/8 oz
23. National Pickling Cucumber, 1/8 oz
24. Prizehead Leaf Lettuce or Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce, 1/8 oz
25. Country Gentlemen Shoepeg White Sweet Corn, 2 oz
26. Jalapeno Hot Peppers (SHU = 4,500), 1/8 oz
27. Long Island Improved Brussels Sprouts, 1/8 oz
28. Tennessee Red Valencia Peanuts, 2 oz
29. Heirloom Navy (White) Beans, 2 oz

Naturally, each year the offspring will produce 10X more seeds, so an initial investment in the beginning is ok, even for someone looking to avoid having to purchase seeds year after year which would minimalize your goal to be self-sufficient. In just 1 year you could triple the size of your harvest and save that 300$ for something more worth while. Non-Hybrid Seeds will store for years, unlike their common counterparts.

A few decent seed bank websites:

http://www.internet-grocer.net/seeds.htm

Much bigger starter kit for about 100$ with free shipping, but they advise not planting all 53 seed varieties at once. I don't even know farmers that have this kind of time:
http://www.arkinstitute.com/seed.html

This Website allows single purchases of seeds rather than bulk quantities:
http://www.victoryseeds.com/catalog/main_vegies.html