Live, Nude Farming

[BridgeTheGap]

Visitors to the Rising Sun Farm in River Falls, Wisconsin, are greeted by a sign stating: “Our Farm is Clothing Optional. Welcome.” The farm, profiled by the online culinary magazine the Heavy Table, produces some 40 different items and 125 different plantings. It also features an unmanned store where shoppers use the honor system to pay and fill out their own hand-written receipts. The farm’s proprietor, Roger Browne, explained the benefits of nude farming:

Without clothes we can usually work comfortably in even the hottest weather. Practical advantages include absence of binding, sweat-soaked clothes, less laundry, and a lower risk of heat exhaustion. Even when hot, humid weather hits it can be quite joyful working nude when it would be miserable working clothed.

http://www.utne.com/Environment/Live-Nude-Farming.aspx?utm_medium=email&utm_source=iPost

[rcrush]

1. but dont you get sunburn in your nether regions?

[Inchworm]

2. heh heh.. you said butt

:yoiks:

[KG]

3. i'm into a clothing optional life, but there some things i'm just not going to do nekkie

farming is on that list.

[gmoney]

4. Don't stand too close to the thresher...

[NJmaverick]

5. Stay away from the hay bailer

[Bunny]

6. I think I might try this. He mentions less laundry as a benefit, so what's the down side?

:shrug:

[NJmaverick]

7. Sun tan lotion bill goes through the roof

[Bunny]

10. I'm spending a fortune on laundry products now.

I can use that money to buy sunscreen.

[Lars39]

8. Mosquito bites

:scared:

[Bunny]

11. .

[Captain Hilts]

13. Spreading 'Off', 'on' must be awkward in some places. nt

[Bunny]

15. You guys are such Debbie Downers.

Ever heard of 'hired hands'? Get a big good-lookin' one to help out with the chores, problem solved.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

12. Pubes in your salad!

:puke:

[Bunny]

14. Uhhh...not necessarily.

You're supposed to wash your produce before you eat it. :spank:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

16. Really?

Oh shit! :rofl:

[NJmaverick]

19. Nice post Clarence Thomas

:evilgrin:

[Sanity Claws]

9. Don't clothes provide protection against microbes in the soil?

I used to garden when I had a house and used to wear gloves as well as clothes because I wanted protection against the microbes and bugs living in the soil. Maybe I'm just nuts but even if I have less laundry to do, I wouldn't feel good about farming in the buff.

[RoyGBiv]

18. Protects against a lot of things ...

... the sun being high among them.

Having worked on some farms and ranches in my life, I cannot imagine doing it doing it without clothes. I am generally speaking a hater of clothing and wear as little of it as possible without offending.

However, when I'm out in a field of corn or okra or something along those lines, I'm going to have long pants, boots, a long-sleeved shirt, gloves, and a hat, even if the temperature is over a hundred.

Seriously ... the corn field is what immediately sprang to mind. I can't conceive of what would make a person want to walk naked through one. Those leaves and stalks are not soft like a baby's bottom.

[appal_jack]

24. uh, you are nuts (well, about germs)

The microbes in healthy soils are generally GOOD for you.

Unless you bleached your work gloves every few hours, they would have been full of microbes too - inside and out.

We humans have something like 10x as many microbes inside and on us as we do cells that actually have our own DNA. Without the many good ones, we would be dead, or at least severely immune-compromised (i.e. - the good bugs help keep the bad bugs at bay).

The good news is, whether you decide to garden nude or clothed next time, you can relax a little...

:hi:

-app

[eauclaireliberal]

17. River Falls is only 74 miles away!

I am SO there! LOL.

74 miles is a breeze.

[BridgeTheGap]

20. Shouldn't they have called it: "The Full Moon Farm?" n.t

[Kali]

21. sounds like a bit of hype

clothes do provide protection in many circumstances

having said that I work with less clothes than most, and barefoot almost always B-)

[MineralMan]

22. Well, it's clothing optional, so I suppose they put on what's

needful, when it's needful.

I'm not that big on too much sun exposure, since I have very fair skin, but, otherwise, it sounds great. I hope they have a nice big pond to jump into from time to time.

[Akoto]

23. Just what we need, naked farmers holding their cucumbers. n/t

[BridgeTheGap]

25. It could be worse. They could be holding someone else's cucumber! n.t

[datasuspect]

26. joyful nudity farming

sign me up