Your story reminds me so much of when I made a mini garden in the backyard of my house, which was tiny, but I managed to plant a few of the plants we ate during the times of acute crisis in Venezuela.
My partner used to tell me that he was going to turn the backyard into the jungle from the movie Jumanji, and I pretended not to listen.
When we sold the house so we could emigrate, what I missed the most were my plants, which I was sure would be cut down to expand the house.
To be able to have a piece of land to grow even a few plants for seasoning will always be a blessing.
Having you own little space and just growing it for your own needs also is sufficient in today's time. I am sure you must be missing it. For me, I never had it before due to space constraint, but I always wanted to and now I am going to have it which makes me very happy