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Botany

(70,444 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 11:48 AM Apr 2020

May 2nd World Naked Gardening Day.

World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD) is an annual international event generally celebrated on the first Saturday of May
by gardeners and non-gardeners alike.


According to NBC's Today News, WNGD "has become an annual tradition that celebrates weeding, planting flowers and trimming hedges in the buff. While it's linked to a movement of nudists who promote wholesome and unashamed acceptance of the human body, the day is meant to be funny, lighthearted and non-political, founders say."

Organizers assert that "besides being liberating, nude gardening is second only to swimming as an activity that people are most ready to consider doing nude".

Beyond body positivity, Corky Stanton of Clothes Free International, an organization that promotes nude recreation, has asserted that the event offers the "fringe benefits of bare, unabashed recreation: the satisfaction of exercising in the great outdoors; the attractiveness of an all-over tan; more Vitamin D on your whole body; the unbeatable experience of skinny-dipping if the naturist event involves a beach or a lake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Naked_Gardening_Day

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May 2nd World Naked Gardening Day. (Original Post) Botany Apr 2020 OP
Oh, hell, no. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #1
Mine too. jimfields33 Apr 2020 #5
It was bad enough when it was just the vegetables... PoliticAverse Apr 2020 #2
Nice ... err In_The_Wind Apr 2020 #3
I hate gardening even fully-clothed. Aristus Apr 2020 #4
I should start a GoFundMe page, put up a tip jar with a link to it on it, Jamastiene Apr 2020 #6

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,582 posts)
1. Oh, hell, no.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 11:51 AM
Apr 2020

Although social distancing would be improved in my neighborhood if my neighbors saw me gardening naked, because they would either go back inside their houses and pull down the shades or they'd take off for the next county.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
6. I should start a GoFundMe page, put up a tip jar with a link to it on it,
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 12:13 PM
Apr 2020

do this and tell them if they tip me enough I won't do this against next year. I wonder if that would work to get enough money to move to a blue state.

I doubt you can use GoFundMe that way though, can you? The tip jar to clothe me might work though. I could afford the price of scalped TP on Ebay then....maybe.

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