BS: special world gardening day - who's in?

Subject: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 13 May 11 - 09:10 PM

World Naked Gardening Day, tomorrow!

I've included all the text here, but the web page has piccy's too.

Get ready for the Sixth Annual World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD)! People across the globe are encouraged, on Saturday, May 14, 2011 to tend their portion of the world's garden clothed as nature intended.

Gardening has a timeless quality, and anyone can do it: young and old, singles or groups, the fit and infirm, urban and rural. An elderly lady in a Manhattan apartment can plant new annuals in her window box. Families can rake leaves in their back yard. Freehikers can pull invasive weeds along their favorite stretch of trail. More daring groups can make rapid clothes-free sorties into public parks to do community-friendly stealth cleanups.

Why garden naked? First of all, it's fun! Second only to swimming, gardening is at the top of the list of family-friendly activities people are most ready to consider doing nude. Moreover, our culture needs to move toward a healthy sense of both body acceptance and our relation to the natural environment. Gardening naked is not only a simple joy, it reminds us--even if only for those few sunkissed minutes--that we can be honest with who we are as humans and as part of this planet.

All that's involved is getting naked and making the world's gardens--whatever their size, public or private--healthier and more attractive. WNGD has no political agenda, nor is it owned or organized by any one particular group. Naked individuals and groups are encouraged to adopt the day for themselves.

Events like WNGD can help develop a sense of community among people of every stripe. Taking part in something that is bigger than any one household, naturist group, or gardening club can move gardeners with an au naturel joie de vivre toward becoming a community. And in the case of WNGD, it's fun, costs no money, runs no unwanted risk, reminds us of our tie to the natural world, and does something good for the environment.

So what should you do? First of all, on May 14, 2011 find an opportunity to get naked and do some gardening. Do so alone, with friends, with family, with your gardening club, or with any other group collected for that purpose. Do it inside your house, in your back yard, on a hiking trail, at a city park, or on the streets. Stay private or go public. Make it a quiet time or make it a public splash. Just get naked and make your part of the botanical world a healthier and more attractive place.

Secondly, tell someone about your experience. No one owns this event, so it does not really matter whom you tell, but tell someone . Tell your friends about your day of naked gardening; write down what you thought of it and email it to your local newspaper; post your thoughts and images onto an Internet site; submit stories and photos to your club newsletter.

Subject: RE: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: Jeri
Date: 13 May 11 - 09:24 PM

This thing was devised by the Coalition of Black Flies and Mosquitoes, right?

Subject: RE: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 May 11 - 09:43 PM

Poster is Bobert.

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No thanks... Lotta stuff lot better nude... Gardenin' ain't one of 'um...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: bobad
Date: 13 May 11 - 09:48 PM

Was doing some planting today and the mosquitoes were voracious -- no thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 13 May 11 - 10:54 PM

Here in Tucson, you'd have to get up pretty early, or work by torchlight. Bugs aren't too bad, though. I've spent too much time with the dermatologist already to be too enthusiastic about the idea, in general.

Subject: RE: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 14 May 11 - 02:28 AM

What a stupid idea.

Don't fancy getting stung on the cobblers or up the jacksy.

Subject: RE: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 14 May 11 - 12:18 PM

It isn't getting stung I fear, but the chilly weather. We just had a hailstorm five minutes ago. Brrr!

Subject: RE: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: JennieG
Date: 14 May 11 - 07:05 PM

No thank you, it's getting cold here.....night times are now in minus Celsius temps and we are getting frosts. Days are correspondingly cool too, a bit too cool for dancing nekkid round the bonfire.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 May 11 - 06:08 PM

This is the kind of thing started by a male college sophomore who's hoping, hoping, hoping...

Temp's in the 50's here anyway. Too cold.

Subject: RE: BS: special world gardening day - who's in?
From: Goose Gander
Date: 16 May 11 - 11:00 AM

Missed this one, I was recording all weekend.