NJ Monthly Features Sky Farm in Nudist Club Story

Sky Farm Nudist Club, which last year celebrated its 80th anniversary in Basking Ridge with Nudestock 2012, recently was profiled in New Jersey Monthly as one of the state's long-running nudist clubs.

And there's pictures.

The profile said Sky Farm, founded in 1932, preferred to “stay under the radar,” for a long time, Cindy Thiboutot, the club's membership chair, was quoted as saying. “Now we’re a member of the Bernards Township Chamber of Commerce," she said in the article.

Eighty years ago, a group of German immigrants purchased 35 acres for $3,440 in a remote area of New Jersey on the outskirts of historic Liberty Corner Village, Thiboutot told Patch last year.

Unlike many properties elsewhere throughout Basking Ridge, that land off Allen Road still is used for the purpose it was originally intended. It remains nestled in a still-wooded area not far from the Sons of Liberty Farm municipal park, and next door to the Fellowship Village Retirement Center.

"We have had the property so long," Thiboutot said. The cooperative, owned by its members as it has since the beginning, has no intention of selling or changing the club at this time, she said last.

According to New Jersey Monthly, the club has 280 members.