untapped local resources ( any fellow californian's ever tried Miner's lettuce?)including those rats with wings aka pigeons that a young Eanest Hemingway shot with a slingshot in Paris when they were "young and poor but happy."
Speaking of rats with wings, here is almost the single most useful Youtube video I have seen since it's inception:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DaQv1quZMs&feature=related