{"id":4345,"date":"2016-05-02T11:24:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawnstarter.wpengine.com\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:41:34","slug":"world-naked-gardening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/gardening\/world-naked-gardening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 12 U.S. Cities for Observing World Naked Gardening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: See\u00a0updated story on World Naked Gardening Day<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>

Gardening is a great way for someone to become one with nature. But each year on the first Saturday of May, gardeners can strip down the desire to be one with nature to its bare essence.<\/p>

Organizers of <\/span>World Naked Gardening Day<\/span><\/a> — it\u2019s on May 7 in 2016 — encourage gardeners to wear their birthday suits instead of their gardening garb while engaging in this popular hobby.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWhy garden naked? First of all, it\u2019s 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,\u201d the World Naked Gardening Day website says. \u201cMoreover, our culture needs to move toward a healthy sense of both body acceptance and our relation to the natural environment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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\u2018This Is Not a Religion\u2019<\/h3>

So, what if you want to ditch your clothes on World Gardening Day yet you still want to put on gardening gloves and a sun-shielding hat?<\/span><\/p>

\u201cOh, there are no rules!\u201d Mark Storey, who co-founded World Naked Gardening Day in 2005, <\/span>told Today.com<\/span><\/a>. \u201cIf I\u2019m gardening naked and if I need to have a hat on or shoes on, that\u2019s fine. People are pretty rational about that stuff. This is not a religion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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Mark Storey is co-founder of World Naked Gardening Day.
<\/strong>Photo: Mark Storey\/Today.com<\/em><\/p>

OK, so there are no rules. But is there some sort of protocol for group or solo participation? Nope. Organizers of World Naked Gardening Day say you can tend to the tomatoes in the buff if you\u2019re alone, with friends, with family, with a gardening club or with any other group.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cAll that\u2019s involved is getting naked and making the world\u2019s gardens — whatever their size, public or private — healthier and more attractive,\u201d organizers say.<\/span><\/p>

Naked Truth<\/h3>

Although World Naked Gardening Day is a pretty carefree event, we do know that there are places in the U.S. where the environment is more hospitable for clothing-free gardening in the great outdoors. In fact, we\u2019ve come up with a list of the 12 best cities for observing World Naked Gardening Day.<\/span><\/p>

To compile this list, we looked at historical weather data\u00a0for May in 49 major U.S. cities; data for Riverside, CA, and San Jose, CA, was insufficient, so they are not included in our ranking. We pulled the federal data from the <\/span>Current Results website<\/span><\/a>. The six statistics we used are:<\/span><\/p>