Naked Gardening Day & Vermont Urban Farm Coming Together
From downtown Montpelier, Vermont, if you drive south on Hill Street, up we have affectionately been calling “The Big Ass Hill,” about 2,000 feet from the Winooski River, you will see a small cut in the trees going off to the left. That is the beginning of our drive to Our Urban Farm. The drive dips down, curves to the north, then back east, around a granite ridge covered in trees. Behind the ridge you will find a cozy home site, tucked into the forest and surrounded by a wide variety of trees and the sounds of nature and wildlife.
It is only 1 acre of land. Yet, having come from a tiny Minneapolis city lot, it seems spectacularly spacious, amazingly private, peaceful and blissful. The garden space alone is larger than our entire former lot, forest surrounding it. Yet, it is a very quick walk down Hill Street (the equivalent of about 3 city blocks) right into the heart of Vermont’s capital city, with amazing restaurants, markets, bars and shops.
A beautiful, private garden, surrounded by forest has us thinking about World Naked Gardening Day, a global event that happens the first Saturday in May every year. It’s a pretty cool homage to our physical and spiritual connection to the Earth, and it is dawning on us that we will be able to fully participate in coming years.
We are looking forward to it.