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The Fernwood Eco-Cemetery Offers Natural Burial for a Green Afterlife

10/03/2014

Fernwood Burial

When it comes <a href="http://inhabitat.com/6-green-designs-for-the-grave/" target="_blank">time to bury a loved one</a>, our otherwise expansive worldview is often funneled down to the immediate and necessary. Thinking of the environmental impact of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/the-spiritree-eco-friendly-burial-planter-grows-a-tree-with-your-earthly-remains/" target="_blank">final arrangements</a> is rarely a priority, but there are people out there who are trying to make it a little easier to <a href="http://sunrisingburialground.co.uk/" target="_blank">make an eco-conscious choice</a> when the time comes. <a href="http://www.foreverfernwood.com/" target="_blank">Fernwood Cemetery</a> is one such place, and each burial there provides an opportunity to remove invasive species and renew the landscape through the use of native plants, trees and flowers.

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Fernwood Tree

Tall trees and indigenous flowering plants are central points at the Fernwood natural cemetery.

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Fernwood Bobcat

Fernwood is one of the oldest cemeteries in America, with gravestones dating back centuries. All manner of wildlife wanders freely in among the graves; a testament to the health of the natural surroundings.

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Fernwood Rolling Hills

Many natural graves are marked by GPS, rather than headstones or markers, allowing the landscape to remain pristine.

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Fernwood Plots

Flooded with sunshine and surrounded by trees, this natural burial ground is a far cry from grey, morose graveyards.

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Fernwood Gan Yarok

The entryway to the consecrated Jewish section of Fernwood cemetery.

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Fernwood Sunrise

The sun rises over one of the natural burial areas.

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Fernwood Guan Yin

A statue of Guan Yin, a Buddhist deity of compassion, watches over another section of the burial ground.

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Fernwood Burial

When it comes time to bury a loved one, our otherwise expansive worldview is often funneled down to the immediate and necessary. Thinking of the environmental impact of final arrangements is rarely a priority, but there are people out there who are trying to make it a little easier to make an eco-conscious choice when the time comes. Fernwood Cemetery is one such place, and each burial there provides an opportunity to remove invasive species and renew the landscape through the use of native plants, trees and flowers.

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