This depends a lot on your location and what is easily available to you as seeds and or plants ready for transplanting.
Do a search for perennial crop plants, you
should find what you are looking for.
If you are in the US then the USDA site will have lots of helpful info, this info is also transferable as long as your conditions are near the same.
In any zone, you can have anything from draught to rain forest type conditions, these conditions are what will determine what will grow best in your location.
Redhawk