Yes! This is the type of gardening I do as well. My interest in plants started with edible wilds and then I moved into food and agriculture studies, which became permaculture and rewilding (feralization.) I saw people working so hard to grow these pampered vegetables and realized quickly that it was a hobby, not a viable food production system. I have feralized chard, amaranth, lemon cucumbers, and pumpkins so far in my garden. It’s been very exciting to watch these plants to their thing. Kale has perennialized in my garden, but the birds eat all the seeds! Salsify was growing wild when I took over the management of my garden, and in two years I have wildmanaged it to be an incredible crop! The leaves look like grass, and provide a great understory for my fruit trees and berry bushes, but when you dig them out you realize that the soil is FULL of these amazing edible roots!
The main methodology is “benign neglect”. I just don’t run that clean of an operation, so I allow things to expand and grow and do their thing. I do weedwhack (or “powergraze”) and if I see chard or salsify, I just will weedwhack around it.
Beyond that, it helps to plant things that I know will grow well in my area. Mostly I plant things that are considered “wild” or things that I have noticed that have gone feral in the neighborhood. If I am going to plant an annual and give it some pampering, it needs to be WORTH it in my opinion. Here, tomatoes, garlic, potatoes, and squash are about the only thing that seems worth it for the amount of effort.
Great to see others doing this work!