The Mid-Winter Naturist Festival, February 12-17, is Sunsport's largest event of the year. Sunsport will be full of naturists from all over North America and beyond. Choose from many activities or relax and play in the South Florida sun. Renew friendships and make new friends. Be part of a caring community committed to exploration and growth. Enjoy the freedom of feeling the sun, air and water over ALL of you.
Drum circles and movies happen each evening and trips to clothing-optional beaches on Tuesday. Tours of the Food Forest and Bamboo Forest will be available as well as an exotic fruit tasting event. Life changing workshops and lively discussions are also part of this amazing experience.
Tracy's Black Cat Cafe will be open daily 9-2. You can find the updated full Festival program including a description of each workshop on Sunsport's websites.
All Sunsport members who lead at least two workshops or volunteer to help for at least five hours will have their registration fee waived. Those wishing to volunteer in the office, in the restaurant, at the hospitality booth, checking showers and rest rooms, moving chairs, or parking cars should attend a volunteer meeting Thursday, February 5th, at 8 pm in the pavilion.
Check out our website! Get the latest on our commitment to Naturism, Permaculture, Health, Nutrition, Spirituality and Community.
Don't miss the opportunity to select the site or accommodations you want for next year. A list of available sites and accommodations is in the office. The website now features pictures and descriptions of all rentals and a map of locations.....go here.
See details in this newsletter and on the website for seasonal agreement details.
Check out the slide show on our homepage of all the best photos of the Sunsport Experience by our talented photographers.
The Annual Coed Fun Volleyball Tournament on Sunday, the 22nd.
To register for the volleyball tournament, see Barbara Skinner or Ken Wright at the volleyball court if you are interested in playing. All skill levels are mixed with teams made up of different people each game.
Community Happenings
Events in February
Daily Events - Sunrise Silent Meditation at 8am afternoon Pétanque at 2, Morning Pickleball at 8:30am Water Aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10, Volleyball 1:00 pm.
The February 6th First Friday Community Drum Circle is ON!
Note: the special drum circle ground fees will be in effect only until 10 pm when the office closes. After 10 pm entry, regular ground fees will apply.
Please arrive before 10pm to enjoy the $15 price.
POTLUCK INTERNATIONAL PARTY
SHARE YOUR FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL DISH TO CELEBRATE THE OLYMPICS!
Wednesday, February 11th at 6pm
JUST MARRIED BAND!
is back Sunday February 22 1PM
MEDICINE MUSIC CONCERT
a poolside concert on Friday and then Saturday early evening will be a silent ecstatic dance by the drum circle area
Participants can develop better insights as to what their heart, mind and body needs to be more in balance, more content and more loving.
Sunsport Meditation Garden
2026 Events at Sunsport
Young Adult Weekends - TBD
Mid-Winter Naturist Week - February 12-17 2026
Community Drum Circles - The first Friday of each month
Various Women Events presented by Katie and Kindred Sistars
The Young Adult Naturist Weekend
The Young Adult Naturist Weekend We are working on dates and Program. Stay tuned for updates.
Sprout Corner
Marie-Gabrielle and Christopher have been growing sprouts and Microgreens at Sunsport gardens for five years now. They have an indoor farm on the property where they grow Sunflower, Speckled pea, Sprouts and Wheatgrass
When women gather, MAGIC happens. When women gather and allow themselves to shed all their shame, conditioning, limitations and share authentically, heart to heart, HEALING happens. This is a ONE OF A KIND event and we would love to have you join us.
Please follow @katieospina ✨ @kindredsistars ✨ @iam.inneralchemy ✨ @natalieundefinable@francesca.bliss✨to learn more about the gifts each one brings to the GODDESS GATHERING CEREMONY. It is the ultimate gift you can give to yourself. 🎁Here’s to stepping into 2025 with more FREEDOM to be you, JOY of expressing yourself authentically and POWER to create the life of your dreams.
Healthy food will be available daily in the office which is open 9 am - 5 pm
NEW HEALTHY OPTIONS MENU!
For those looking for low salt, vegan, KETO, paleo, gluten free, low sugar etc
we got you covered.
Don't see what you want? Just ask Tracy and she will use her culinary creativity to accommodate your desires.
"Self Portrait" by Indissoluble Resident Artist @francesca.bliss
Reminder:
In the recycling area, please put only aluminum containers, juice boxes, and plastic items (except styrofoam, bags,and utensils) in the blue bins; clean paper and cardboard in the yellow bins. All other small items should be bagged and placed in the dumpster. The maintenance staff should not have to sort our garbage. If the garbage is not sorted properly, it can not be recycled. Thank you.
To help Sunsport and the environment, *please deposit aluminum cans in a special bin with a round hole in the top in the main recycling area.
The yellow containers are for paper and flattened cardboard
The blue containers are for aluminum cans*, glass, juice boxes, and plastics except styrofoam, bags, and utensils.
Deposit other trash in the large grey or black trash bins with tops.
Please secure all trash cans tightly since raccoons are skilled at opening containers and making large messes. Thanks.
the Gardens of Sunsport
ArtBox & Serenity Garden
Some Starfruits and Jujubes ready to eat on Food Forest Trail
Birds Life with Theresa
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Its been a long winter
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Permaculture Sunsport News
Air Potatoes!!
Thanks to Rob and Arlene who organized the air potato party and all the volunteers. I think they set the record for one days haul at 459lbs.
Dioscoria - the Yam Genus
Not to be confused with sweet potato yams which are morning glories - Ipomoea
Some species are important food sources others are aggressive invasive.
At Sunsport we grow both - good and bad.
The bad - air potato - Dioscorea bulbifera
Especially problematic for young plants like above.
Good News
We now have 2 beetles that will eat only the bad Dioscorea air potatoes.
One beetle species eats the leaves. Here you can see the larva eating leaves.
The other species of beetle eats the bulbils.
The Good
At Sunsport we grow several species of edible - with proper cooking - Dioscorea Yams. The one pictured above is the Chinese Yam or Dioscorea polystachya.
The Chinese Yam is the exception to cooking. This Yam can be eaten raw when properly prepared.
One of the most important Yams is Dioscorea alata 'ube'.
Its rich purple tubers are used to create a delicious ube pudding.
One of these days you just might find Ube Pudding on the menu at Tracy's Black Cat Cafe!
The live Forest Forest plant database is now on our website. With several hundred rare and interesting fruit trees and leafy and root edibles and medicinals.
The Bamboo Forest live database is also on the website now.
As we approach 100 varieties of rare bamboo from around the world, Sunsport's bamboo collection is the 4th largest publicly accessible collection in the US!
Permaculture is a philosophy of design for creating a sustainable human culture. That is, it's a way of thinking about how we set up the support systems around us: shelter, food, water, energy, society and business. Well designed permaculture systems allow us to live as a beneficial part of the ecosystems around us.
Join our FaceBook page for more details and meetings of the Sunsport Permaculture & Community Garden Group .
Edvard Munch........"in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself."
Bathing Men, 1907–1908
Munch often uses shadows and rings of color around his figures to emphasize an aura of fear, menace, anxiety, or sexual intensity. These paintings have been interpreted as reflections of the artist's sexual anxieties, though it could also be argued that they represent his turbulent relationship with love itself and his general pessimism regarding human existence.
Many of these sketches and paintings were done in several versions, such as Madonna, Hands and Puberty, and also transcribed as wood-block prints and lithographs. Munch hated to part with his paintings because he thought of his work as a single body of expression.
Harvesting Women, 1912–1913
So to capitalize on his production and make some income, he turned to graphic arts to reproduce many of his paintings, including those in this series. Munch admitted to the personal goals of his work but he also offered his art to a wider purpose, "My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life—it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity."
While attracting strongly negative reactions, in the 1890s Munch began to receive some understanding of his artistic goals, as one critic wrote, "With ruthless contempt for form, clarity, elegance, wholeness, and realism, he paints with intuitive strength of talent the most subtle visions of the soul."One of his great supporters in Berlin was Walther Rathenau, later the German foreign minister, who strongly contributed to his success.
Vision: Creating a clothing-optional world where your body does not define who you are.Mission: Promoting a culture of body acceptance through clothing-optional recreation, education, and community outreach.Values: Naturism, Understanding, Diversity, Education
The Naturist Action Committee is the political adjunct to The Naturist Society Foundation. NAC exists to advance and protect the rights and interests of naturists throughout North America, and supports the responsible recreational nude use of public lands.
The Naturist Education Foundation is the nonprofit informational and educational adjunct to The Naturist Society Foundation and is dedicated to improving the awareness of naturism and body acceptance among both naturists and non-naturists, including business leaders, legislators, and the college community. NEF seeks to achieve an understanding and acceptance of naturists and their activities throughout North America.
NAC and NEF are 501(c) nonprofit corporations.
Our Mission: Simply put, we exist “To advocate nudity and nude recreation in appropriate settings while educating and informing society of their value and enjoyment.”
The American Association for Nude Recreation is the largest, most long-established organization of its kind in North America. With roots dating to 1931, we have grown from our humble beginnings to an organization that has served 213,000 individuals throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and beyond. These members enjoy their own backyards and pools with family and friends, as well as over 180 nudist resorts and affiliates.
The Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) is Canada’s national nudist organization. Along with the Fédération québécoise de naturisme (FQN), the FCN represents and promotes the naturist lifestyle as wholesome, healthy, and enjoyable.
Our Mission Statement
The Federation of Canadian Naturists is a member-supported, not for profit organization dedicated to fostering a greater understanding, acceptance and appreciation of naturism as a way of life throughout Canada.
Incorporated in 1980, SFFB has long worked tirelessly for the advancement of naturism in general, and clothing-optional beaches in particular, across the entire state of Florida.SFFB’s Legal Defense Fund has financially assisted countless naturists over it’s tenure.
B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, former Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department Programming Partner for Haulover Beach and an adjunct of South Florida Free Beaches (SFFB), founders of Haulover Beach’s naturist section in 1991.
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Reservation and Deposit Policy 2026-2027 Winter Season
