And it doesn't have to look like a garden. I've landscaped our yard with assorted edible plants that most people just consider to be decorative. My most favorite is the simple canna lily. This plant produces a large number of edible, startch filled tubers. It grows just about everywhere though in really cold areas it's best to pack some of the tubers in straw in a box in your basement until spring. They can't handle freezing solid. It's great for guerrilla gardening a vacant lot. Regular day lily root tubers are also edible (as well as the flowers themselves) but they don't produce as large a crop.

My oak trees produce hundreds of energy-filled acorns, though rendering them edible does take a lot of water. These oak trees also produce squirrels for protein. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I'd like to add a mulberry tree. Those things produce tons of the sweetest berries you've ever tasted but these berries also leave purple stains everywhere. I've found several in a park, but they aren't really convinent to get to.

When the mob comes they'll just see flowers, shrubs, and trees.

-Mark