Jon Marc said that if he wins a 47 million dollar lottery that he would build a naturist resort.
It's a big dream and I'd do the same, but what if one of us only dreams a small dream with a big faith? What if he could only manage to afford an acre of land that happened to be a little bit out in the country and the terrain and tree cover made it fairly easy to achieve privacy?

Would it be too far-fetched for him to find two or three other naturists within a two-hour drive who would lend a hand? Would it be too far-fetched for these friends to find other friends near and far to come visit and bring life to the place? Is it possible that five or ten of these people could put in a few weekends to set up a net for badminton or volleyball? Maybe set aside a space for a few tents and an RV or camper, perhaps a rustic cabin?

I think most of us hope for some place bigger with a pool or a small lake, but if you have nothing at all, would something be better than nothing?

I know of a case where a prosperous and benevolent naturist bought a large tract of land and developed a nice family naturist park and included his inner circle of founders and friends in the decision-making, but more often the tendency is for the borrower to be servant to the lender.

Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven could be compared to a mustard seed, among the tiniest of seeds, yet the plant that sprang from this seed grew large enough for birds to make their nest in its branches. (Not the same mustard plant that we Georgia folks plant in our gardens).

If a naturist Christian gathering place can be considered a bit of the kingdom of heaven, can we not use the principles that Jesus described to build that corner of God's kingdom? Namely, start small with what God gives us.
The point being that the success of the operation depends far more on the faith of the planter than the size of the seed.

On this forum, we are scattered across the United States and several other countries, but I think we would do well to use all the means at our disposal to find people of faith in our area and go ahead and plant with the seed that God has put in our hands rather than wait for some cash windfall or some powerful investor with no personal agenda.

No, its not to far fetched. A guy named Marty in Southern Illinois created a nudist area on his land and improved it little by little with his wonderful wife. Unfortunately, she died this past year, so I imagine this will be a lonely Christmas for him. He does show that you can create a haven of serenity for nudist friends and it doesn't have to be a high end, expensive resort.

Something similar is happening at Show Me Acres in Missouri: the owner and his wife are gradually developing the site into what will be a fine naturist park. The lodge is far from finished, but they can host gatherings like CNC-MW with no problem. (Let's pray for sunny weather for CNC next summer! I like rain as much as anyone, but, well, Lord... )

What you saw was 9 years in the making. One can only imagine what it will look like in another 10 years or so.

I have asked the owners of SMA to give us sunshine this year, they are not making any promises but said that they will do what they can. lol

Daniel

Keep on praying for it! And I can see it growing exponentially the following years! Not just double!

Boyd

I like to think that I live in a naturist resort--a 400-square-foot one! At least, it's a resort for one naturist and any of my visitors who enjoy social nudity.

A mans home is his castle, and a naturists castle is his resort.

Boyd

Jochanaan,

I think it's great that you have the liberty to walk around your house in the nude, but don't you ever wish that you had enough fencing and shrubs around all or part of your back yard to make clothing unnecessary (weather permitting)?

I went to a large home improvement store recently and found myself pricing their cheapest privacy fencing.
It comes to about $30 bucks a panel (assuming that you install it yourself).

I would love to afford enough panels to fence my entire yard, but I'm thinking that maybe two panels and one more shrub would give me just enough privacy to get some allover sun next summer.

Maybe if I buy one panel a month, I might have a goodly portion of the yard privatized.

Then I could give serious thought to nude gardening, nude backyard cookouts, nude darts, nude croquet, maybe some badminton. This could be lots of fun!

Great winter project before summer! That would be about three to five panels by then!

Boyd

We did our own stockade fence in NJ around the pool, from the corners of the house.

In Baton Rouge, we paid $5,500 to have stockage fence put along both sides of the (much bigger) rear yard there. Didn't have to fence across the rear because it went down to a bayou where there were just snakes and deer. My neighbor to the left could still see me working at some points back there, but she didn't mind. She kicked up quite a fuss when we put the fence up. She's the one I was facing while working at my shredder naked. I was working behind a door that I had opened to shield me (opened out, with shredder behind the door outside). I was working away and hadn't noticed that the door had swung shut, revealing me to her as she got into her car next door. She'd send cute little telephone messages when they wanted to have a party in their back yard: something like "Request that Ralph not make so much noise, as we're planning a party." In other words, "don't show your naked butt back there while our party is going on.

Ralph
The naked gardener
God's original intent

I have noticed that many complaints about "noise" were made towards nudists than any other group. I didn't know that walking naked made more noise than clothes. And besides, what does "naked noise" sound like?

Boyd