• Gaia’s Garden
• Edible Forest Gardens (big text books!)
• Teeming with microbes
• I Contain Multitudes
• Sproutlands: The endless gift of trees

Not necessarily about herbs, per se, but if you want to try creating as much food from your land, these are good places to start. Ecology is important!

Pastebin

Drink more water! Whenever I find myself grumpy, the culprit is usually dehydration… It makes everything harder IMO. Ymmv etc etc anecdata

I second this. I have one small cup of strong black coffee in the morning since that’s all I can take, and then I switch to a thermos of hot loose leaf mint tea – probably 4 cups a day or more. It’s just so much more interesting than water, and helps keep things settled