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Five Reasons to Get Naked in Your Garden

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The 16th annual World Naked Gardening Day is coming up soon! Yes, #nakedgardeningday is a thing.

Naked gardening dayYou may now be wondering, why would anybody want to garden naked?

Outside of skinny-dipping, gardening ranks as the top activity that people are willing to try in the nude.

Here’s five reasons why you should try naked gardening this year!

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1. Being outside in the sunshine is healthy for the body and emotions. When you garden naked, you get the benefits of vitamin D on every part of your skin, and you can even rid your farmer’s tan a little, too. (Maybe consider sunscreen for your more tender bits!)

2. Gardening naked is a multi-sensory experience. When the wind blows, you’ll feel it against every angle and curve of your body. The sun’s warming rays feel great on those parts of you that are typically covered up.

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3. Gardening is a natural antidepressant. Microbes in healthy garden soil contain B12 which is key for mental health, and new studies show that getting dirty outside helps lift your mood. Plus, you get to commune with nature in a way that just doesn’t happen when you’re fully dressed.

4. Gardening naked helps us get over society’s body image issues. Whether you’re alone or with friends, gardening naked is a great way to promote body acceptance and “rewild” ourselves as natural beings.

5. Have fun with suggestive photos. Why not get creative with your photos by using carefully-placed flowers and leaves, interesting shadows, and angles? All the cool folks on Instagram are doing it. 

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The sixteenth annual World Naked Gardening Day is May 2, 2020. So get out there and get naked!

Just maybe choose a different day to use power tools or attack those fire ant piles.

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Elaine Stil
Elaine Stil
6 years ago

I am low in Vitamin D. However, there is not enough clover around to cover me this time of the year.

Scott Trent
Scott Trent
6 years ago

My retired neighbor, Jennifer, would probably call the law on me. 🙂

Rachel R
Rachel R
4 years ago
Reply to  Scott Trent

I was just thinking maybe backyard only lol. Most of the time, no one is around on my short dirt road in the middle of the desert, unless one of my 10 neighbors happens to be coming home or UPS is making a delivery. 😉

Not a liberal
Not a liberal
6 years ago

And what about the bugs that creep along as your sitting down… Yeah i don’t think it’s the brightest idea I’ve ever heard of…. thank you but i prefer to not get an unknown bite on my tender bits.

Jake
Jake
5 years ago
Reply to  Not a liberal

Don’t be so judgmental. And why must you make a political statement from such a light minded suggestion. Shhhhh.

Starbucksmine
Starbucksmine
5 years ago
Reply to  Jake

Thinking the same. Lol

Mark Boyd
5 years ago
Reply to  Not a liberal

Political views have nothing to do with it. I’m not a liberal by any means and I garden naked as often as possible. It just doesn’t make sense to wear clothing for most gardening tasks. Those same bugs can creep into your socks, pants, shorts, and shirt. Clothing provides safe harbor for them. When you’re nude, it is easy to feel them and brush them off before they can do their thing. Thank you for providing reason #6. Reason 7: It makes much more sense to rinse off under a hose or an outdoor shower than to change out of… Read more »

Sheri Ryden
Sheri Ryden
4 years ago
Reply to  Not a liberal

What about wearing just underwear? I love the idea. If you’ve got good elastic

Colin Hammond
Colin Hammond
4 years ago
Reply to  Not a liberal

You know what, when you sleep bug’s can crawl on your body without your knowledge

Hal
Hal
4 years ago
Reply to  Colin Hammond

If you believe that you must have had a couple of them crawl into your brain! If that were the case, no one would ever bet a bed bug bite!

Frank Murray
Frank Murray
4 years ago
Reply to  Not a liberal

For the last 50+ years the military has been training troops in the cold and heat shirtless- called extreme conditioning. They realized the limits of fabric technology and also know humans evolved over 100,000 years to endure a wide range of temps. A couple of side observations they made were that when we work outside without showering, our natural body odor is not attractive to bugs. When we go outside after showering, we smell like flowers. Bugs that crawl on you tend to dislike the body hair- too coarse. Ticks don’t like leg hair. And your bodies natural oils and… Read more »

Adamius
Adamius
4 years ago
Reply to  Not a liberal

“you’re”

Evan Hoke
Evan Hoke
6 years ago

I would garden with you naked any day. I am not sure that my neighbors would appreciate it. I love being naked outside

Twelve noon
Twelve noon
6 years ago

And you can try out your portable sun dial – if you are a guy!

Kendo
Kendo
6 years ago
Reply to  Twelve noon

Classic answer

Ben
Ben
4 years ago
Reply to  Twelve noon

As I get older, mine doesn’t work on Daylight Savings Time.

BuddingRose
BuddingRose
4 years ago
Reply to  Ben

Cute, Ben 🙂

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BeeSting
BeeSting
6 years ago

I wouldn’t dream of going naked in my yard with my 11 colonies of honeybees. There is always on guard bee hanging around ready to sting.

Gianluca
Gianluca
6 years ago

I have already earned a reputation as a strange individual with my neighbors and this performance certainly will not help me. This experiment is not positive for me.

Scott
Scott
5 years ago
Reply to  Gianluca

Who cares what others think. Do what feels right for you.

Jennie Symons
Jennie Symons
6 years ago

We have snakes where we live. I’d hate for me to be bitten on the btm then have to find a REAL friend to help me. Ha, ha, ha.

T Nova
T Nova
6 years ago

Birthday suit weather begins around July/August as far as I am concerned. Brrr until then. Secondly, the story in my feed literally preceding this one was how a man survived a sexual assault from a bear! 😳 Best to all at this coming event…I’ll raise a glass in your honour. 🥂👒👚👖🧤🙌😎

Bob
Bob
6 years ago

The best activitie I no is naked gardening so relaxing and natural

Deb
Deb
4 years ago
Reply to  Bob

Need to brush up on a little English!

Chapdan
Chapdan
6 years ago

May 6th is much too early for us northern gardeners. We can get a real nice snow fall the first half of May in some years. How about moving this to mid July or so when the sweet corn is high enough to keep the gawkers from stopping traffic on our road?

Linda
Linda
5 years ago
Reply to  Chapdan

Amen

R Stuart-Libbey
R Stuart-Libbey
4 years ago
Reply to  Chapdan

Good thinking!! I grow a lot of roses and being fully covered still doesn’t keep them from assaulting me!!😩🤬

Jay Belle
Jay Belle
6 years ago

I love to tending my garden while naked. and frequently take a morning wander through my garden with my fist coffee with the kookaburras and the magpies warbling as the sun rises. I consider myself very fortunate that for the most part my half acre garden is concealed from public view, although we do back onto a 100 acres of native forest and there are the occasional bush walker or dog walker that wanders past. As a male entering my pre senior years I can assure you I’m no oil painting. but I’m quite comfortable in myself, I did thou… Read more »

Betty Bergdahl
Betty Bergdahl
5 years ago
Reply to  Jay Belle

Come to Seattle. We have a Solstice Parade every year. People ride their bikes naked and some people paint themselves. There are floats and music and all kind of interesting things going on besides the bike riders. It’s a very fun experience. I have to admit I’m not a participant only an observer.

A
A
4 years ago
Reply to  Betty Bergdahl

Does that happenjust for sunner solstice?

Sue
Sue
6 years ago

There’s a YouTube video of an interview with Ruth Stout in her later years where she recounts her gardening naked experience.

Jane R.
Jane R.
4 years ago
Reply to  Sue

A voice from the past! Ruth Stout was my first gardening guru back in The 70s. So wise. Thanks for the reminder😀!

Linda
Linda
6 years ago

Love that we have high fences. Love being naked day or night outside. I often find places outside of my home to sunbath nude.

Lois
Lois
6 years ago
Reply to  Linda

Me too! It’s great

John
John
5 years ago
Reply to  Linda

Linda I think that’s grea… also, where do you live? I’m likeminded… 😉

Russell Bennett
Russell Bennett
6 years ago

Had great fun last year trimming the hedge and got a great shot covering what mattered with my electric trimmer powered by our solar panels. We have an enclosed space; it was an epic day

Linda
Linda
6 years ago

Maybe if I was a lot younger I would give it a try 😁😁

raymond burns
raymond burns
5 years ago
Reply to  Linda

with age comes greater enjoyment.

John
John
6 years ago

As i am a nudist the best way to be nude and just enjoying the summer is doing it in your home and garden as well as the first time it was for me and then I have been loving it
And I wish the lpeople who are in the world would give it a try inside or outside in the garden it is a great deal of love and respect for the world

Terrie
5 years ago

Well, I guess we can sit outside and silk the corn, wash and chop the turnip greens, cut up the jalapeno, habanero, banana, bell, chili peppers, cut up cucumbers, cut up squash, cut up green tomatoes with onions, cut up cabbage with onions and peppers, cut up okra, cut up green beans, put up purple hull peas, and much, much more! I think I’ll just do all of my tomatoes inside….don’t want any heat inbearing and give them some a nasty bacteria, especially when you have 350+lbs to put up. I do a lost art…..canning, I’m trying to make sure… Read more »

mj
mj
4 years ago
Reply to  Terrie

Tired just reading about Terrie’s food prep. And I did it myself once upon a time. But not naked then and not now. And let the big corporations can and freeze for me. Age has its privileges.

Scott
Scott
5 years ago

I love any activity clothes free. I wish I could get away with NAKED gardening. Alas mu opportunities for naked recreation are limited.

MckTsh
MckTsh
5 years ago

Oh sweetie the people that do the most gardening are Seniors and trust me no one wants to see us naked. LOL We would wind up in a Nursing Home faster than we could shake out the weeds. You’re young and lovely; if we were in our 20s, 30s or even our 40s maybe (I was still wearing a bikini at that age) but now, No, No, No! You go out there and do all the things you wore which are wonderful and many that I have done in my past but not now. The best was being 27 and… Read more »

Varg
Varg
5 years ago
Reply to  MckTsh

Luckily we don’t enjoy the sun and the garden naked to make others see us! If they DO – and don’t like it – they are free to close their eyes… 😉 But that is ONE of the very nice things with naturists; ALL sorts of “body-designs” are both accepted and looked (…) upon as natural! Being naked is about freedom – and a way of freedom we ALL can enjoy – no matter age or look!

mj
mj
4 years ago
Reply to  Varg

And how many Baptist churches in the area. No nakedness where I live.

F block m
F block m
4 years ago
Reply to  MckTsh

We were naked in our 20s and still naked in our 60s. It’s never about what you look like, it’s the freedom you feel naked!

Leader
Leader
5 years ago

5 reasons to wear lots of clothes: ticks, bees, fire ants, wasps, and ticks. And neighbor children.

Mark Boyd
5 years ago
Reply to  Leader

Clothing does not prevent any of those bugs from getting to you – especially ticks. In fact, they can hide in the clothing. https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/avoid/on_people.html

And no child was ever harmed by the mere sight of a naked person. Just adults who choose to be offended by nudity.

Mike
Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Boyd

I have a six foot high fence but it has gaps between the boards, my back neighbor does day car, I got redwood slats and covered the gaps !

Mike
Mike
5 years ago

I don’t need a day to garden nude! I just do it – only at the back, if neighbours want to gawk – that’s their problem!!!
Saw tHe “feature” couple on Escape to the Country recently ( a rerun – I’m in Aus.)

Jerry Leader
5 years ago

Five Reasons not to Get Naked in Your Garden: 1. Humans wear clothing to keep our bodies covered up from peeping eyes ! 2. Bugs love naked human bodies…..makes it easier to get into nasty places ! 3. The sun can harm those sensitive parts of the human body where no sunscreen should be ! 4. Have you seen some one who is naked most of the time…they look over cocked ! 5. Most males would have a problem hiding their excitement ! 6. But hay if you are twenty to forty years old female & not hard to look… Read more »

Davy K Engle
Davy K Engle
5 years ago

I live next to a golf course, and no fences. I think not . I however have skinny dipped with my wife late in the evening when we had a pool . Was a long time ago.A great life experience.

Dazee
Dazee
5 years ago

I always try to garden naked. I have a private yard and my neighbors are respectful. It’s such a great feeling and there is less to no dirty washing to do after, so less electricity and water wasted.

Athena n'ha Lee
Athena n'ha Lee
5 years ago

Meh. Boring. Many, many, many more article-worthy subjects to find out about.

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5 years ago

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Sacha
Sacha
5 years ago

So u can get ants in ur bum bum

Patty
Patty
5 years ago

I think it’s a wonderful idea!!!

Lozz
Lozz
5 years ago

I live in the U.K. But would love to garden naked. Problem one: is overlooking Neighbour’s, Two: freezing weather until June-Sept. Three: my teenage boys who would not want to see Mum butt starkus.

Once I have no boys at home and live in the country, then weather permitting, I will be dancing round the garden growing all that’s possible! Thanks for your tips too x

Jim
Jim
5 years ago

#6. It could lead to outdoor sex.

Rob W.
Rob W.
5 years ago

I don’t know….maybe I’ll start off with a loincloth and a big smile first.

Greg
5 years ago

I sure hope my beautiful neighbor hears about this. Maybe I’ll invite her !!

Michael wauschek
Michael wauschek
5 years ago

I love being nude when I can but doing that national day event they is always someone at home doing that time so I hard to do but if no one else from my family is home you now it will come off.

randy evans
randy evans
5 years ago

love being nude all the time / done all the inside of my house here in tahsis nude only had shoes on / just saying done perfect job while doing so , out side well to many jerk offs so this year i will build nice green house look after plants in the nude . / every one nos this now so who ever visits must strip off being free is the best

Franco
Franco
5 years ago

Not the best weekend to celebrate Naked Gardening Day because May 4th is Star Wars Day (yes, it’s a thing) and the following day is Cinco de Mayo. Also, five weeks is not enough time to get into shape and show off my abs. I guess I will have to skip tilling and planting in the nude this year.

Catherine Bleish
Admin
4 years ago
Reply to  Franco

LOL you have me cracking up over here!!!

Amy
Amy
5 years ago

Is it always on May 4th (also Star Wars Day, as it happens), or the first Saturday in May? Or is it not consistent? I need to know how to set the Repeat function on iCal.
Thank you.
Peace.

Catherine Bleish
Admin
4 years ago
Reply to  Amy

Apparently its always on Star Wars Day! I had no idea there was a Star Wars Day!

JazzyMelon
JazzyMelon
5 years ago

You said 15th at top of article then thirteenth at bottom. Which is it 😂 ?

Catherine Bleish
Admin
4 years ago
Reply to  JazzyMelon

I will look into this! We have updated the article year after year so maybe something got lost in translation!

KWB- Midcontinent nudist
KWB- Midcontinent nudist
4 years ago

Nudity isn’t about visual displays to please others. It is enjoying nature and feeling free and unencumbered. Too much sun isn’t good for anyone, but the occasional exposure is great for the body. If you find it offensive, then don’t, but if more folks tried it, we would have a better society. Let us who enjoy it, do so and don’t place your puritanical vices and assumptions on to us. It’s not for everyone. Being non-textile sometimes is healthy, physically and mentally – try it sometimes. Garden or otherwise.

ZeffanTM
ZeffanTM
4 years ago

You dirt-herding hippies just need to die off already and rid the world of your idiotic “flower power” BS that all but ruined the country, just like your moronic children, Sunshine and Flower, will continue to do as they call for socialism.

Catherine Bleish
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4 years ago
Reply to  ZeffanTM

We are actually philosophical libertarians over here, don’t blame us!

MNShyMan
MNShyMan
4 years ago
Reply to  ZeffanTM

So I am a politically conservative, college educated, religious, family man who doesn’t do drugs, am too young to be a hippie, is military supporting and couldn’t care less about your opinion. Oh and by the way, I am a naturist. So please, keep you close-minded, dark aged, line of hate spewing BS where it belongs, in the bowels of the cave where it seems you emerged from. Have a great day too.

Sharon
4 years ago

Oh I’d so love to garden naked but have never had a secluded spot! This year I’ll be in a Community Garden so it surely won’t fly there! I do however wear as little as possible to get the maximum sun exposure. Last year I burned so will have to be more careful this year. I used to have bees in my backyard and actulally loved to get stung as it relieved all my aches and pains! Bee venom besides being a potent antibiotic is the most potent anti-inflammatory known to man! People have been stinging themselves for arthritis, MS,… Read more »

Klaas Vandersluis
Klaas Vandersluis
4 years ago

my butt particular likes to feel the sun, its where the powerXpanels are denied by our cultures. The winged birds like me better and sense there excitement

Flowerfairy
Flowerfairy
4 years ago

Would love to garden naked, But My HOA would frown on it since the view from my garden overlooks a public nature trail and elementary school with openwork fencing! LOL
Dont want to burn the retinas of the public, LOL. So I will wear my colorful cotton caftan sans undies and Know I am naked under the cover of public decency!
Have fun folks!!

NAVIGATOR
NAVIGATOR
4 years ago

SKIN CANCER IS NOT FUN ~

Joe Mama
Joe Mama
4 years ago

I usually just tea bag all the flowers to pollinate the garden like a fat sweaty bubblebee but yea sure these 5 reasons too…

Merlyn Grant
Merlyn Grant
4 years ago

Anyone here in the UK?
I strongly suspect it would lead to jail time here.
Am I wrong?

Bob
Bob
4 years ago

The body is meant to be covered as it ages for a reason!! Its just common sense. Just because you are born naked DOESN’T MEAN WE ARE MEANT TO BE NAKED ALL OF THE TIME!! We are NOT animals we are human beings. Wake up people!

Jacque
Jacque
4 years ago

I am not opposed to naked gardening but I have so many allergies I would be dead within 10 minutes! 😊

Chris
Chris
4 years ago

I used to do this when I lived in the sticks except I did wear flip-flops due to sharp rocks, thorny weeds, and the hot, sun-baked dirt. There ain’t nothing like wrestling a garden tiller in the nude… I do miss the all-over tans and the fresh vegetables of course…

Kyle
Kyle
4 years ago

I own 10 trees acres with plenty of privacy and gardened in the nude for years. It was very relaxing and fun at the same time. My gal and I enjoyed that special time together. Never a bug bite like so many are worried about on this thread. Colorado.