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Contents 1 2008 1.1 Radio 1.2 Magazine 1.3 Blog 2 2007 2.1 Radio 2.2 Magazine 2.3 Blog 3 2006 3.1 Radio 3.2 Popular culture 3.3 Blogging, web features and listings 4 2005 4.1 Preliminary Media Coverage 4.2 Podcasts 4.3 Blogging

[edit] 2008

[edit] Radio

[edit] Magazine

[edit] Blog

• MoreWaysToWasteTime(4-22-2008):http://morewaystowastetime.blogspot.com/search/label/Mark%20Your%20Calendar

[edit] 2007

[edit] Radio

• Austalian radio staion does interview with Mark Storey April 30, 2007. Show is rock 'n roll talk format.

[edit] Magazine

• Allure magazine, May 2007 issue. Paragraph about WNGD in the "Beauty and the Beat" section, pg 229.

[edit] Blog

• AANR Cyber Bulletin Volume 7, Issue 3 - 02-01-2007 "Garden in the Nude"

[edit] 2006

[edit] Radio

• KIRO Newsradio "Getting Naked Sept 7, 2006 - On some of these warm, late Summer days, it's only natural to want to take off your clothes to get cool, right? 710 KIRO's Rachel Belle has the skinny on some people who are doing just that." Inverview with Mark Storey. The show is available in MP3 format (916 KB, 2 mins 10 secs. long [1] (KIRO site) or [2] (SeattleBeaches.org site). Mark discussed Magnuson Beach Bares and also very briefly discussed World Naked Gardening Day.
• Australia program? Sept 6, 2006?

[edit] Popular culture

• Neikiddo.com Flash animation "Get out your pruning shears and mower and nip any unwanted growth in the bud! wndg.org"

[edit] Blogging, web features and listings

• iVillage GardenWeb Garden Voices Aug 2, 2006
• World Naked Bike Ride London
• Improbable Research > Arts & Science Sow, and so ye shall reap, naturally Monday, July 31st, 2006 "Thanks to investigator Bob Frenay for alerting us to the nature of this temperate zone eventuality"
• Naturisten Federatie Nederland
• As the Garden Grows (Long post) 14 Aug 2006

[edit] 2005

[edit] Preliminary Media Coverage

• The Grand Rapids Press 11 Sept 2005
• KOMO AM 1000 News Radio. Seattle, short interview with Mark Storey 9 Sept 2005
• Battle Creek Enquirer 7 Sept 2005
• Audubon Magazine Field Notes "Gardening in the Buff" September 2005
• WKFR 103.3 Morning Show 12 Aug 2005
• Nude & Natural (N) Magazine 25.1 Autumn 2005
• The NAC Newsletter Aug 2005
• The League of Women Voters of the Fairfax (Virginia) Area Newsletter (PDF) "Gardening in the Buff" March 2006, Volume 58 Issue 7

[edit] Podcasts

• Bloodthirsty Vegetarians Show #0010 12 Sept 2005

[edit] Blogging

• The Stranger 6 Sept 2005

• The Main Point Blog-By Michael Main Aug 13 2005

The above blog has a funny dialogue about naked gardening enthusiast Robert Norton and WNGD. Sad though.

82-year-old Robert Norton was buried this week...in a suit. He'd probably be pretty ticked about that...not dying...the suit. He wanted to be buried naked. Norton made headlines on numerous occasions in Illinois because of his insistance that he be allowed to putter around his garden nude. His neighbors had him arrested some 20 times since 1962 for indecency...still he gardened naked and wanted to be buried in the raw too. His brother refused and Robert couldn't really protest I suppose.

On Thursday, Robert Norton - World War Two veteran was laid to rest...in his Sunday best.

It's sad he died before September 10th. You might want to circle that day on your calendar. That's World Naked Gardening Day.

They have a website but be forewarned...there are naked people on it.

Robert Norton would have fit in fine with those folks...I'd bet they'd have buried him in his birthday suit.

• Texas Nude Recreation

• Go Bare Aug 1

• Wynk.diepilot.org

• dustbury.org Putzing around the yard 6 Aug 2005

Someone was kind enough to send word of World Naked Gardening Day, and I'm happy to pass it along, but I am compelled to point out that for all its presumed joys, there are distinct disadvantages to doing this sort of thing:

"Hmmm. I wonder if that could have been poison oak."

Entirely too many tools with big, sharp blades.

"Now we'll just pull this back away from the fence, and — oh, hi, Mrs Grabarkewitz."

Police helicopters.

"I thought I trimmed that rosebush already."

Sunscreen and Miracle-Gro don't mix.

"Those damn bugs get into everything."

String trimmers.

Trust me on most of these.

"Uhhh....I rang your doorbell and nobody answered, so I decided to walk around..."

• Sunshine on my shoulder 10 Sept 2005

And elsewhere, today being World Naked Gardening Day.

Discover magazine (October) asked Dr Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, "Why aren't people getting enough Vitamin D these days?" His response:

"Vitamin D is unusual in that we don't get it from our food: we synthesize it by being out in the sun. But our whole cultural evolution has been to remove us from sunlight. We live in houses, drive cars, work inside, watch television inside. In the northern part of the United States, even if you do go outside in the winter, the sun isn't high enough on the horizon to activate the synthesis of vitamin D in the skin. Meanwhile, we've also learned that skin cancer can result from excessive radiation, so we're now covering ourselves and putting on lotion to avoid sunburn. That further reduces the amount of vitamin D we can make. The truth is that we were made to run around in warm weather without our clothes on."

And, occasionally, to bend over and pull a weed or two.

• Takoma Gardener

• Town & City Gardening Special feature on naked gardening:
  • Naked Gardening - A growing movement
  • Got a garden problem - call the naked gardeners! Two Petersfield Post Office workers are hoping to rake it in this summer - thanks to naked gardening.
  • Married couple Glen and Cyndi Fryer are starting an 'All Nude Gardening Service' in East Hampshire.
  • Nude gardening is becoming more mainstream. At least in the UK.
  • Cut to North America where a Nude Gardening group has been attempting to organize the first-ever World Naked Gardening Day.
  • Naked in the Garden - Naturism In Your Garden : Gardening Nude - A growing movement.
  • Naked in the Garden - Naturism and the Law In Your Garden
  • Mike Gets Naked in the Garden Vote: Should Mike get naked for WNGD?
  • Naked in the Garden Gallery Pictures someone has put together off the web of women naked outdoors.

• Powderhorn Birdwatch

"And now for something completely different, or maybe not, for this neigborhood. The inaugural World Naked Gardening Day is September 10, proclaimed by some organic gardeners in California in an attempt to bolster the number of nude gardeners. The founders recommend not working with cactus or poison oak but that any plant can be grown just as well with or without clothes (on the gardener, not the plant). Perhaps next year this event can be tied in with the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association’s garden tour. And once I got to thinking about this, I thought—Why not nude birding? I’ll put some more thought into this and consider tying it in with May Day or the Art Fair."

• FKK Forum