Creating Conservation Burial Grounds
Heartwood Preserve Conservation Cemetery, Trinity, FL
We strongly recommend spending time formulating answers to the following questions as you consider the possibility of starting a conservation level burial ground. Thanks to conservation burial consultants Heidi Hannapel and Jeff Masten of Landmatters for their help in developing these insightful questions.
Project
1. Have you researched your state’s cemetery law?
2. Do you have a green burial model in mind?
3. Who is leading the project? (Hello, Champion?)
4. What is your background?
5. Do you have land available?
6. Who would run the cemetery?
General
1. What brings you to green burial?
2. What attracts you to the idea?
3. Have you visited any green burial sites?
4. Are you aware of the distinction between green burial and conservation burial?
Personal Goals
1. What are your goals for the project?
2. What resources are you bringing?
3. What influence do you have?
4. What are your limitations, barriers, obstacles?
5. Is timing an issue?
Relationship with Land Trust
1. Do you have relationships within the conservation community?
2. Do you have a relationship with your local land trust?
3. Is this your first contact with the land trust or are you helping their board develop a cemetery committee?
4. Are you proposing a project on land the land trust already owns?
5. Are you proposing a project on new land the land trust must acquire?
6. Do you have other community partners identified?
Project
1. Have you researched your state’s cemetery law?
2. Do you have a green burial model in mind?
3. Who is leading the project? (Hello, Champion?)
4. What is your background?
5. Do you have land available?
6. Who would run the cemetery?
General
1. What brings you to green burial?
2. What attracts you to the idea?
3. Have you visited any green burial sites?
4. Are you aware of the distinction between green burial and conservation burial?
Personal Goals
1. What are your goals for the project?
2. What resources are you bringing?
3. What influence do you have?
4. What are your limitations, barriers, obstacles?
5. Is timing an issue?
Relationship with Land Trust
1. Do you have relationships within the conservation community?
2. Do you have a relationship with your local land trust?
3. Is this your first contact with the land trust or are you helping their board develop a cemetery committee?
4. Are you proposing a project on land the land trust already owns?
5. Are you proposing a project on new land the land trust must acquire?
6. Do you have other community partners identified?
Green Burial Council Resources for Prospective Conservation Cemeteries
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Start-Up Tips for Green Burial Cemetery Operators
Topics covered include:
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Opening, Closing, & Maintaining a Green Cemetery
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Conservation without money is just conversation."
— Richard Branson
