World Naked Gardening Day takes place every year on the first Saturday of May. (Representational Image: Shutterstock)
World Naked Gardening Day celebrates the human body in its natural form
World Naked Gardening Day 2023: We are all born naked in our mother’s womb. Our parents dress us to conform to societal standards of shame, modesty, and protection from the elements. However, there are beaches around the world where people can walk in the open; There’s nudity and then there’s naked gardening. World Naked Gardening Day takes place every year on the first Saturday of May.
World Naked Gardening Day 2023: History, Significance and Key Facts
- World Naked Gardening Day celebrates the human body in its natural form. While this may seem obscene to many, for nudist gardeners, it is our chance to be at one with nature in its purest form.
- World Naked Gardening Day was founded by Mark C. Storey and Jacob Gabriel. Storey is an associate professor of philosophy, editor-at-large of Nude & Natural magazine, and a board member of the Naturist Action Committee. Gabriel is a permaculturist.
- World Naked Gardening Day began as guerrilla gardening, which involves growing plants or crops in areas of abandoned, unmarked or private property.
- World Naked Day is recognized by The Naturist Society (TNS), the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR), and Clothfree International, among other organizations.
- The first World Naked Gardening Day event was celebrated on September 10, 2005, which was a Saturday. The date was later moved to the first Saturday of May in 2007.
- In New Zealand, the day is celebrated by the New Zealand Naturist Federation on the last weekend of October. In Canada, the first Saturday of June is celebrated as Naked Canada Gardening Day.
- Nude gardening aims to promote the idea of body positivity. Nudists come in all body types and ages. The initiative is meant to de-sexualize the human body and normalize body diversities.
- People participate in nude gardening in public parks or in their own private gardens.
- Participants removed weeds from the ground, cut bushes and stripped flowers naked.
- Orlando Florida. Ranked as one of the best cities to celebrate nude gardening due to its impressive per capita nudist population.
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