My name is Christopher Macy, and with a fraction of the funding given to larger food forests across the country, I am on track to establish the largest urban food forest in the United States by February 2025.
There is a devastating imbalance in urban cities with limited access to fresh, local food sources. Through the Arizona Food Forest Project, I’ve been transforming city-owned parkways, which homeowners are responsible for maintaining, into thriving food-producing spaces. This initiative is a modern take on Victory Gardens—creating perennial vegetable gardens, planting fruit trees, and encouraging backyard chickens and ducks—not to eliminate grocery stores but to supplement them with hyper-local, sustainable food sources.
To date, I’ve invested my own time and money to make this vision a reality, and with support from Growing to Give Org, we are securing grants to expand this work further. By February, we will have transformed over 15 neighborhood parkways in Phoenix, AZ, planting more than 160 fruit trees and 200 perennial vegetable plants. These efforts will yield hundreds of pounds of vegetables annually and, in coming years, tens of thousands of pounds of fruit for the community.
This project has the potential to create jobs, provide food directly outside people’s homes, supply local food banks, and improve both physical health and financial well-being. This is not a dream—it’s happening now. With additional support, we can accelerate its growth, spreading the impact across the country and benefiting all Americans.
Hey brother Christopher! Great job! This is exactly what I have been trying to do, envisioning! I am way behind your progress but think more of us like thinkers should create an alliance, a super network and keep GROWING TOGETHER!
How can we request to DOGE or MAHA to make this issue a priority?!
The REAL Green New Deal is everyone growing more plants and growing more food. This does not take Trillions in bureaucracy… It takes WE THE PEOPLE to start owning our own GROWTH!
Hey Nicholas great to hear from you and thank you for the comments I think as far as I know of so far to this in from of DOGE and MAHA it would be sharing it and having those who get it share it and so and so on. Really spreading it far and wide I am looking at other options as well to get in touch. I do like to support any one doing the same kind of work please reach out to me my Website is Rebuildinglifegardens.com with my contact info and the charity sponsoring the project is tps://growingtogive.org/arizona-food-forest.html. Lets connect and see how we can help each other and push this out there.
Hey Christopher,
You are doing an incredible job and our team at Growing to Give is honored you asked us to support your efforts in creating the nation’s largest food forest! Policy for the people and the land we have been granted as our home is vital to feed the nation which can be easily done with the right policies and the will of the people! Some of my ancestors arrived here 12000 years ago and others only 382 but they all lived off the land. It’s time people get back to nature and learn to grow for their communities and families. Phoenix, Arizona is a forward thinking city by allowing residents to take initiative. Imagine if every city opens the opportunity and reduces the regulations to grow food and forests how food security will improve. We can end hunger with initiatives like Arizona Food Forest and end it rapidly. It starts at the ground level and like a tree the best time to plant it was 20 years ago, the second best time is now. We are with you all the way to create a secure food future for all from sea to shining sea! - Siobhan Shaw, Co-founder, GrowingtoGive.org
