how to get next generation plants from prior season.

Hi All,

New to permaculture. Last year created a compost (putting kitchen scraps under a tarp) that was done on a contour since we have a good slope in the yard and was amazed this year that volunteer cherry tomato plants did fantastic and had an amazing crop of volunteer butternut squash. So thinking, that’s the way it should be. Curious if anyone has advice, references (book,youtube) they’d recommend on how to get another season from last seasons crops with minimal work. Just started watching Geoff’s video’s but it wasn’t jumping out to me how to do this.

Thanks and kind regards,

Joe