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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Naked Farmer - Part 41

 State of Nature

This is the last post in my series of photos from the Naked Farmer, Ben Brooksby, a young Australian farmer who posted photos of naked Australian farmers on social media sites. The naked photos were to get people's attention, and his message was to encourage people with mental health issues like suicidal thoughts to talk about it with someone and not to hide it away. Ben himself had suffered from panic attacks in school.

Farmers sent Ben naked photos of themselves from all over Australia.  I organize the photos by which Australian state they're from.  Today's photos did not specify a state, so I call them "state of nature."

Above, two farmers weeding or picking a crop.

What a catch!

A farmer with his ute.  None of the photos show frontal views, because Ben posted them on Facebook, which does not allow frontals.

But Facebook allows rear views, as long as they don't dominate the whole photo.  The photo above was captioned "When the groom gets his gear off."

Most of the photos are anonymous, but some farmers were brave enough to provide names.  This is William Carruthers with his airplane.

Aussies must have their beer, no matter where they find themselves.

A bunch of farmers with morning wood (sorry, couldn't resist).

This guy has caught some yabbies, a type of Australian crayfish.

This one was captioned "Stumped why we don't talk about mental health."

And finally, I believe this is a photo of Ben Brooksby, the Naked Farmer, himself, celebrating the first birthday of his site with a birthday cake that has a carrot as a candle.  Thanks, Ben!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope you reconsider and post some more of this wonderful series.

Big Dude said...

These are a hoot. Hate to see the series end.

whkattk said...

Why the last? Has Ben stopped posting?

SickoRicko said...

I have the same question.

Unashamed Male said...

I have posted all the Naked Farmer photos that I have. The last photo on the Facebook site that was my source was dated September, 2024. There have been no new ones since then, and the URL that it lists for more information, thenakedfarmer.com.au, doesn't seem to exist any more. Sorry, guys, but I think that's it for the Naked Farmer.