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The first Saturday in May is World Naked Gardening Day. This year, it falls on May 2, 2020, and if you’re thinking of celebrating, here’s a bit of advice from people who’ve done it before.
While we should all be proud of our bodies, it’s not always appropriate to parade around in our birthday suits. If you choose to indulge in some bare naked planting, we suggest you keep it classy.
So today, we’re sharing 20+ posts that illustrate the best and worst ways to celebrate World Naked Gardening Day. This post was updated on April 1, 2020 (no foolin’).
According to Wikipedia , World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD) was introduced in 2005 as a nudist movement to discourage body shaming and encourage acceptance of all forms of the human body.
But you might argue that naked gardening has been ‘a thing’ since the garden of Eden.
“Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is— nor what faith or art or health really is.”
If you enjoy this humorous take on WNGD, then you’re sure to like my tongue-in-cheek post about why gardening is sexy ,
Do a search for #worldnakedgardeningday on any social network, you’re sure to find plenty of people sharing images of their adventures on WNGD.
I’ll admit I was nervous to look up pictures of how others had celebrated Naked Gardening Day, but most gardeners were really quite classy about it and I got a good laugh.
While many gardeners opted to cover their goodies with some form of foliage, others were more creative. And it made me think about some of the things I would definitely NOT do on WNGD.
While WNGD is a great day to do some planting, stay away from thorny bushes like roses and bougainvillea.
Instead choose something more appropriate like Peter Pepper , Teton de Venus tomato, and German Johnson tomato.
Of all the things I can think of to do on WNGD, working with spiny succulents doesn’t make it on the list. You could easily get yourself into a sticky situation!
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While I’m all for being unashamed of the naked body, I don’t really want to see what everyone looks like naked. For that reason, I recommend against gardening at the community garden on May 5th.
And for the sake of your neighbors, perhaps avoid trimming the low hedges in your front yard…
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In fact, I would think twice about using any power tools while partaking in World Naked Gardening Day.
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When you’re baring all, you might feel more comfortable with a prop. Think outside the box! Bring your lightsaber or a tiny flamingo watering can. Hahahaha
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If you’re going to bare all to the sun, make sure you’re wearing sunblock! And you don’t want to be asking just any random person to help you with your back.
For this reason, I think Naked Gardening Day is best celebrated with that special someone. Even if you never make it out to the garden…
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I’m sure this guy was very careful with his placement when he got down and dirty with his plants.
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Unless you have a solid plan for getting down.
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For listening to your favorite tunes of course.
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Or just keep your pants around your ankles. LOL
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The best way to celebrate any day is to have some fun with someone you love.
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I think it’s a great idea to get out and have some fun on WNGD. Let’s take a look at some of the best ways gardeners are celebrating!
There’s something inherently funny about nudity. We should all be proud of our bodies, but let’s also give in to the fact that there’s a lot of awkwardness around being unclothed outdoors.
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Because there’s not much cuter than a baby butt.
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It’s always a good day to enjoy the company of your favorite people … just make sure they’re aware of the dress code.
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If you kinda want to participate but you’re feeling shy, feel free to hide behind lots of foliage and garden tools.
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Here are some tips for trimming your bushes on WNGD:
Share your plans in the comments below!
Hey Guys!
Love this guide- and I am so ready for WNGD!
you clearly find nudity alternately titillating and disgusting. it’s neither. get over yourself. though a community garden in your average town without other naked gardeners would be a little odd, even on this day, why would you couch your objection in “i don’t want to see your nakedness”? if you don’t want to, then YOU stay home. don’t advise other people that you don’t want to see that so others should probably not go there? that is either illogical or badly written. again–nudity is no big deal. get. over.yourself.
Hi Amy, I’m sorry my article upset you so much. I knew that that idea of naked gardening might seem inappropriate to some, but it never occurred to me that anyone would take this article so seriously.
I didn’t mean to shame anyone for being naked. I simply said I would stay away from the community garden because I would not be comfortable around a whole lot of naked people … and maybe don’t bend over a whole lot if you’re outdoors in the nude. There’s some good logic there if you think about it.
I hope you can reread the article and try to let it just be funny because laughing is so much more pleasant than getting mad over a silly article about totally buck naked people doing ridiculous things.
So, you are putting it back on Amy, that she is the one with the problem. Your attitude in the article was immature, at least..at most, uneducated and lacking in respect.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention that it’s not a good day to remove all that poison ivy and poison oak!
How could I not include that one?! 🤦‍♀️
Glad you enjoyed the pictures and my humorous take on World Naked Gardening Day.
Avoid the beekeeping while naked too
Yes, that could get quite uncomfortable!
Still too chilly here in Scotland at the moment, so I’m going to have to insist on a postponement until the weather warms up a bit. Then that would be normal anyway: my garden is not overlooked and why wear clothes at home if it’s warm enough not to bother?
LOL. Every day is naked gardening day for you! 🙂
We moved a year ago and realised we were not overlooked. During the hot weather this year (from about June I think) I thought, ‘*sod* this’ and got my kit off whenever I could. I’ve been told it’s liberating, and it is, although I’m a bit on my own at the moment and not included family, friends or neighbours although some do know. The head gardener (Missus) was initially horrified, even though we have been married 40+ years, and I think she’ll take time to get the idea(!).
We are close to a railway line and I do use a bit of discretion at the approach of a train (believe me, most of the general public are not ready for the sight of me naked) So as you can see I haven’t even waited for that day in May, in fact I’ve just come in now when the chilly breeze sprung up (08 Sept)
Incidentally my body really is a ‘Temple’. It’s old, decrepit and crumbling…

Allison Sidhu | Managing Editor, Gardenerspath.com says
Thanks for the tips! Just wrote my own article on the embodied, sensual experience of gardening in the nude, in advance of WNGD this year.
Hi Laura! Great article, Lol! I’ve never done Naked Gardening but it does sound interesting. 🙂
Can’t wait, since I have a body to die for. Yes, I do, but I won’t tell you where I buried it…
I thought every day was naked gardening day.my garden is called the garden of eden
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By now you’ve probably seen the Internet hoopla for World Naked Gardening Day. The subject is everywhere, with its own page on Facebook and articles picked up by local newspapers whose reporters are doubtless having a “field day” talking about the first Saturday in May, when we are all expected to dip our uncovered toes in amongst the tommy-toes.
This is now a “tradition” of ten years. Words like “nudism” and “naturism” are all over the websites touting World Naked Gardening Day. But how did this whole idea get started? And what is naturism anyway, and why should we pay attention to it? Why do some of us like to take our clothes off when we work outside? And how can it be illegal for people to enjoy the practice of stripping down to the basics on their own property?
“Someone told me once, ‘It’s time to get you a pair of overalls, boy.’ But I don’t believe in summing up nothin’—I let my experiences speak for themselves—and even if I did, a synopsis should be singular. That’s why every time I go out to work in the fields, I work naked. It lets my neighbors speak of my experiences for me.” – M.C. Humphreys
For precedents for this apparently eccentric, but possibly totally human and normal behavior, we have only to look at the very first chapter of the Holy Bible. There we will see that right off the bat, after making the world and all the plants and animals, God himself created a garden, and in it he placed two people. Two naked people. Thereon hangs a tale. For when, tricked by the Evil One, the first couple realized their nakedness, they experienced shame, and the whole idea of sin and regret was introduced into a setting that God had meant for happiness and fruit salad. Adam and his mate, Eve, felt compelled by their shame to hide their nakedness. Medieval painters who tackled the subject took this to mean that the couple covered their reproductive regions, thereby inventing and perpetuating the notion that certain parts of us are more shame-worthy than others. The fig leaf (chosen presumably for its size) was used for the purpose of concealment, guaranteeing that leaf’s place in the pantheon of classical art and folk humor.

Later in the Bible, in the book of Job, we have further proof, often quoted in defense of the natural-ness of nakedness: “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither.” Nakedness is our natural, original, innocent state. Right?
For corroboration, consider that children, if not chided, don’t mind being naked. Often we think it’s cute and encourage it. Child nakedness seems to offend in proportion to the age of the child; it’s okay to have photos of infants in the buff, but upwards of two years old, the public perception changes and such nudity has suspicious implications and is generally controlled or banned. Yet… in classical literature and art, the innocence of naked children was deemed an appropriate subject, leading to statues of little nymphs and cupids placed in gardens, meant as subtle reminders, I believe, of the pre-Biblical-Fall humans in their once non-threatening paradise.
A gardening guru who wrote many books about her theories, Ruth Stout was known as the “No-dig Duchess” whose unusual practices included covering everything with mulch, and uncovering herself while gardening. A while back, when I wrote that article about her for Homestead org, I received a cordial email from one of her relatives thanking me for my portrayal of this radical gardening icon. Among his comments was confirmation of what I had reported—that it was not uncommon for the family to drive up to see her, and find Ruth clomping about in the garden totally unclothed.
The naturist movement is not new. Many notables have experienced garments to be a barrier to spiritual experience. Henry David Thoreau advised us not to “allow artifacts like clothing to intervene between ourselves and the Other.” Walt Whitman rhapsodized, “There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent.” In the late 1700s, the term “naturism” came into parlance, and by the early 1900s, several European countries, notably France and Germany, saw nudity as healthy: exposure to the healing rays of sunlight and the zest of outdoor exercise were two benefits cited. Indeed, nudity went, as it were, hand in glove with such far-out ideas as vegetarianism and abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. In modern times, clothing-optional beaches are acceptable in most of Europe (even England). The Finns, living in one of the coldest climates available to human beings, like being naked and have few hang-ups about it. The French, well, what can I say? And the Germans think they invented nudism.
Some proponents of nudity have high ideals, believing that it promotes a sense of equality, removes occasions of envy evoked by clothing, and could eventually lead to a classless society.
In the 1950s in the US, there was a study that concluded that 75% of Americans never experienced any nudity at home, but by 1995, another study indicated that parental nudity had no negative effect on children, and by the year 2000, a Gallup poll indicated that 80% of Americans believed that “people who enjoy nude sunbathing should be able to do so as long as they do so at a beach that is accepted for that purpose,” and 25% admitted to having gone skinny-dipping in a “mixed group.”
So, it seems we have a taboo against nudity in almost every public situation among people of almost any age. But we will tolerate it in hidden enclaves, among other nude people, and many of us have an “old brain” secret longing to wake up, disrobe, and smell the flowers (being careful to avoid the thorns).
Trading on this ancient longing for a return to Eden, to innocence, and the feeling of sunlight on our bare, un-fig-leafed surfaces, Mark Storey, consulting editor for Nude & Natural magazine, and Jacob Gabriel, on behalf of Body Freedom Collaborative, dreamed up World Naked Gardening Day, back in 2005. These avowedly innocent, but somewhat mischievous, subculture entrepreneurs saw the idea as dovetailing with the under-the-radar activity known as “guerilla pranksterism.” Though Storey and Gabriel have maintained a calculated distance from WNGD, they also admit that they were trying to create a sense that the naturist gardening movement, if there is one, “was valuable and would grow organically on its own.”
The claim is made that most people regard gardening as the second activity they might agree to undertake with others, outdoors, without clothes (swimming is first, in case you wondered). So World Naked Gardening Day is just a call to a normal, harmless urge. Of course, there are those who, reacting with a touch of sarcasm to the call of WNGD, invites its fans to come on over to their homestead and walk around naked for a little while. The bees, rocks, and briars would soon convince these anti-clothes activists to think again. Still, if the photos on Facebook and elsewhere are to be believed, naked gardening is fun, as long as you’re careful where you step, and remember the sunscreen and the bug spray!
So, with all the good reasons for gardening—a generally perfectly acceptable activity—while clad only in one’s birthday suit, what are the options for those of us who want to enjoy the next World Naked Gardening Day?
To pursue my research on this topic, I investigated numerous websites for what are often called “nudist colonies.” I was astonished to learn that within 45 miles of my home in modest Mayberry , there is a nude “ranch.” I sought out the website and glommed the photos and the information. “Oh my, Andy!” as Aunt Bea might have said.
Wider searches revealed that one may get publicly nude most anywhere in America, but only in a private way. To go nude among likeminded naked people, one must confine oneself to certain places and times. The image of a “camp” or “ranch” is generally apt; a secluded spot where you might go for a few days of vacation, or just a few hours for a quick dip in the pool, a woodland walk, and a round of volleyball. Nudists can join official societies, and often advocate their cause by blogging. But beware: Googling nudity and related subjects may result is seeing more than you wanted to, and, to be fair, some supposed “nudist camp” websites are little else than a chance to display unwholesome pictures, some of which border on pornography.
So, if you want to stay legal, and enjoy nature as perhaps God intended, how can you combine actual nakedness and actual gardening, as the proponents of World Naked Gardening Day are encouraging us to do?
I was very pleased to find among the sometimes problematic nudist websites, this cheerful, family oriented, garden-centered operation, and to learn more from the owners, Paul and Jane Groth, about this Wisconsin-based “clothing optional” farm and garden that started life as a fully-clothed farm and garden.
Jane says, “When my mother and I purchased this farm in 1997, the neighbor, a certified-organic dairy-farmer rented some of the fields from the previous owner and we continue to do that to the present day. Because he is certified, we have to sign a contract stating that we will abide by organic standards.” Jane’s husband Paul grew up on a hog farm in Hartford and she grew up on a beef farm, so they weren’t really involved in organic techniques. “I know my dad used weed killer in the fields as did all the neighbors, no one understanding how it would affect the nutritional value of the soil/plants or disturb the microbiology of the soil creatures and insects. It was USDA approved and suggested.”
Jane admits that initially, the benefits of organic growing are hard to see, “But after many years we have seen that we have a more manageable disease rate and the insect population is more varied, although raising bees still is a problem. Weeds grow rampant, but now with more education we found out that ‘weeds’ are only weeds if they are in a place where you don’t want them. They have many nutritional benefits and are a symptom of the chemistry of the soil.”
“…One day in the fall of 2010 after the youngest was out of the house,” Jane recounts, “Paul said he wanted us to take a trip,” to a place in Florida. “He described it as a nudist gathering spot. Paul loved being naked at home, especially gardening, and I would join him if the weather was right and no one around.” Jane imagined the worst, entertaining fears that their marriage was heading for disaster, but she finally gave in after looking at the camp’s website. On that visit, Jane remembers, there were two “incidents” that were handled by camp staff. She was impressed. “One violator was even escorted off the beach by a police officer. I felt safe and protected. I told Paul that if that is what he had in mind that I would like to be able to offer that freedom and body-acceptance at our farm to others.”
So, in the summer of 2012, the Groths opened their well-established farm as a clothing-optional “gathering spot for nudists, naturists, and other likeminded individuals, with gardening as the center for our existence. About one week after contacting the Naturist Society, located
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