Summer is a great time to enjoy Sunsport — especially for those nearby looking for a relaxing escape, even on short notice.
We’re currently refreshing and enhancing our rental units to make your stay even more comfortable and enjoyable, and these improvements are already increasing interest across the property.
While summer offers flexibility, availability can still become limited — particularly for weekends and our most desirable locations. Early reservations also provide the best selection of sites and accommodations.
A list of available options is in the office, and our website features photos, descriptions, and a property map to help you plan your next visit… gohere.
See details in this newsletter and on the website for seasonal agreement details.
The May 1st 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.
We have 40 trays growing right now. Speckled pea and sunflower microgreens are available for delivery today. You can send either of us a message to place an order.
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
We wanted to share some exciting new changes ….
We’re pleased to announce that Rob has accepted the position of General Manager at Sunsport Gardens. Rob will work closely with department managers, and staff to help support daily operations, guest experience, resort improvements, and the continued growth of the Sunsport community.
We are also pleased to announce that Casper has accepted the position of Maintenance Manager. In this role, he will oversee maintenance operations, property upkeep, infrastructure coordination, and ongoing improvement projects throughout the resort.
Please join us in congratulating both Rob and Casper as they step into these important leadership roles and help support the continued success and future of Sunsport Gardens.
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.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
the Gardens of Sunsport
Be sure to check out our new Bromeliad Garden at the entrance to Tranquility Trail.
ArtBox & Serenity Garden
Look out for the return of the Mystical Zen Garden.........
Birds Life with Theresa
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Don't Forget to
Visit Birdland
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Community Garden News
Malanga!
The most common scientific name for malanga is Xanthosoma sagittifolium. It belongs to the Araceae (arum) family and is often referred to as tannia, yautía, or new cocoyam. While X. sagittifolium is the primary species, other Xanthosoma species (like X. atrovirens) are also commonly referred to as malanga.
Malanga is a versatile root vegetable commonly prepared as crispy fried fritters (frituras) or creamy, savory soup. Key recipes include grating it with egg and garlic for frying, or boiling and pureeing it with butter and milk for a creamy puree. The root is known for its earthy, nutty flavor and acts similarly to potatoes but with a superior crunch.
Permaculture Sunsport News
The (many) Roots of Sunsport
Sunsport has many important and fascinating edible roots growing.
Achira and Malanga
Roots are an important source of carbohydrates especially during famine times.
More: Cassava, Elephant Foot Yam (Voodoo Lily), Oca, Ti Plant.
Ginger Flower
Jicama Root.
Elephant Foot Yam Flower Starting to Emerge.
Taro
Achira (Canna)
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 .
When London-based artist Caroline Coon heard that she was about to get her first solo art exhibition at the grand age of 73, she burst into tears.
1995 Oz Trio
Then she heard the proposed name for it
– ‘Caroline Coon: The Great Offender’.
‘I just gasped,’ she says, ‘but it didn’t take me long to realise that the title was perfect.’ Coon has worked for nearly half a century in the vanguard of cultural movements that have caused storms of social change – the hippie ‘peace and love’ underground, the punk rock movement, and the women’s movement.
1960s A very natural looking Caroline Coon by Harrison Marks
By the time she left St Martin’s College of Art in 1968 figurative painting was deemed dead, but Coon continued to work figuratively in oils on canvas with a brush. She was not interested in painting in new ways or working with new materials, but in seeing and interpreting the world anew. Her painting is structured around narrative, influenced by Pop Art and the politics of sexual liberation. Her hermaphroditic queer figures confront and destabilise patriarchal, binary sexual stereotypes. The first painting she sold, in 1967 aged 21, was ‘My Beautiful Cunt’, her response to the pathological fear of female genitalia. In 1971 Caroline Coon was one of the women to whom Germaine Greer dedicated The Female Eunuch.
Self Delphinium Age 70
In contrast with the general acceptance of the female nude, Coon’s honest depiction of naked men has been considered shocking – in 1995 the Tate Gallery banned her ‘Mr Olympia’ painting because it showed an erect penis. Recently Coon has been painting her Ladbroke Grove neighbourhood in a series of narrative urban landscapes featuring naked figures, contrasting people’s social personas with their creative physical bodies.
Caroline Coon’s website can be found here, with lots of information about her artistic and political endeavours and a gallery showing more of her work.
1992 Pieta
2013 Gender Blurring Tangles
1994 Defender
2007 Adam and Eve Ladbroke Grove
1991 Sheltering
1989 Goal
2009 Fallin Sunrise
This monthsFriday evening, May 1st monthlyCommunity Drum Circle is ON!!!
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
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
