UC Berkeley and Santa Cruz professors have published that though economies and corporate profits have steadily climbed since WWII in the US, income inequality has also climbed, leaving people with less disposable income.
The US's economy is tied into the global economy and so most of the people of the world have suffered due to the US's recent economic recession. As consumers make up 70% of the economy, in order to have a strong economy, there needs to be a strong middle class with many jobs and room for advancement, so consumers can continuously spend more.
To help increase the disposable income and wealth of the people of the world, to help jump start the US and global economy, NIT has developed this global solution to reduce food costs, and increase cashflow revenues for members of NIT's Global Residential Food Farm Network, to decrease the risks associated with the outsourcing or globalizing, automation, and/or internet liberation of US jobs, which has actually seen wealth and income decrease for the middle class, with erosion of union rights since the 1970's, coupled with China's entry into the World Trade Organization, which has significantly reduced the manufacturing jobs in the US for the last 10 years.
NIT has successfully launched the first phase of its global residential food forest products, services, and networks, having successfully framed, researched, analyzed, designed, developed, and implemented the first prototype of our global residential food forests a year and a half ago, at the Natomas Institute of Technology in sunny Sacramento, which boasts 300+ sun days per year, has access to two major converging rivers in Northern CA, and rarely drops below freezing, the optimal conditions for a residential food forest network initiative.
The following is a very simplistic map of the current design of the outside residential food forest at NIT. We are currently developing our recipe, networking, and indoor food forest products, services, and networks.
Each colored circle on this map represents a single food farm tree, grouping of similar food farm trees, food bush(es), and/or (a) patch(es) of food. Every member of NIT's Residential Food Farm Network, will be able to have a similar map for every other member of this social media network locally, state-wide, nationally, and/or internationally.
Optimally, every member will increasingly develop a larger local community of residential growers, whose network exchanges will allow members to increasingly access different types of food by bartering through the network.
Optimally, surplus food not traded and consumed by members of NIT's Residential Food Farm Network, may be sold locally to food-coops, and eventually further, as NIT grows its membership and thus surplus food for sale, increasingly providing a cash flow to members of this residential organic food farm network initiative.
Our vision here is to ultimately have every citizen on Earth grow their own food at home, inside and/or outside, and trade food with their neighbors and members of their community, to increase the quality and reduce the price of feeding a world population. If everyone in the world becomes a farmer and trades foods, then they will have much more disposable income, and access to higher quality and a greater diversity of significantly cheaper fresh local and non-local foods, recipe services, to provide you recipes for food based on the food you receive and provide your network.
Longevity studies have determined that people with lower caloric diets, live longer, genetics aside. Accordingly, to live a healthier life, people need to eat raw organic fruits, vegetables, beans, starches, and fats, to statistically live longer, to be coupled with sufficient exercise, sleep, and hydration, and many other healthier lifestyle choices, like avoiding smoking, alcohol, sugar, excessive salt, circulatory system clogging fats, and/or other inflammatory foods.
Similarly, micronutrient juicing studies, raw organic food studies, and longevity studies have determined that eating a rainbow array of raw organic (avoid the dirty dozen) fruits, vegetables, avocados, nuts, yams, and/or other raw foods preserves 90% of the molecules in the food that keep people healthy and living longer, which people otherwise cook away, leaving them with expensive food that preserves 10% of the nutritional value, and then their bodies might absorb 10% of that, and so a lot of food, energy, and money is wasted.
NIT is located in North Natomas, a former rice field, in a modest spanish-styled villa with 8 rooms, in a decade-old medium density well-planned development, flanked by three parks with ponds, schools, businesses, within a flood-engineered community surrounded by a new bond-funded flood wall to the 200 year flood height. We are located next to UC Davis, an agricultural college, and to an extensive farming community which feeds much of the US.
Living in America's food basket, our family of five spends $100-200 per week in food at a grocery store, or $400-$800 per month, or $5000-$9000 per year, and as middle-aged people, we will do this for 50 years at most, which mean that at most we will spend about $250,000-$450,000 in food, the cost of 1-10 rental homes in the US, we could otherwise leave to our children as passive income.
Why let multinational interorganizations of corrupt profiteers take increasingly more of your precious hard-earned money away from you and your family, to provide you a more expensive and less healthy product?
Off-the-grid, it doesn't matter what happens to the rest of the world (though it really does), which increases the probability that you, your family, and your friends will better adapt, survive, and grow, by being a member of a residential food network that reduces how much you have to pay for fresh food, a major cost in life, if you don't grow and trade your own food.
Invest in a cheaper, healthier, and more stable future for you and your family today by becoming a member of NIT's Global Residential Food Forest Network by sending us an email expressing your interest in becoming a member, at natomasinstitutetechnology@gmail.com.
