On top of TACLS, I have "Stockalike Station Parts Expansion Redux" installed; this has some hydroponics modules that take waste, CO2, waste water, and "minerals" to make food, oxygen, and water.
After asking a question elsewhere in the forum, I found out that a module that is able to use waste and ore to produce fertilizer could be "repurposed" to instead make "Minerals", meaning that dropping down from orbit onto your nearby planet/moon and mining for ores can help keep these food-farms running; not infinite food/resources, but more self-sufficient. (and I am just noticing the smelting "metal ore" to metal [extraplanetary launchpads] takes normal rocket fuel plus that ore to make metal and CO2 and Water, so I believe that this could further help running food-farms longer-term)
Using the guidance from the other forum page, I was able to tweak this converter to make minerals instead of "fertilizer":