Tag: green burial

funeral flowers and sound bowl at a green burial

Fall in the Forest

Written on October 3, 2023. Posted in Stories.

Blessings to you during this time of seasonal transition. Thank you to those of you who joined the tour and equinox celebration. We enjoyed a lovely gathering and shared our relationship to this time...

OSU Extension Service Land Steward Program

Presentation by Suzanne Willow for OSU Land Steward Program Community Education Series

Written on January 21, 2022. Posted in Media.

Suzanne Willow of Willow-Witt Ranch and The Forest Conservation Burial Ground shares about green burial. This is a recorded evening presentation from the OSU Extension Services Land Steward Program...

The Hills We Die On

Written on January 5, 2022. Posted in Media.

On a warm summer day with bright yellow flowers in full bloom, Lydia Shockey and her family gathered at a secluded forest meadow surrounded by mountains to bury her father. After lowering his body...

‘Green’ Burial’ Finds A Home In Southern Oregon

Written on August 24, 2021. Posted in Media.

A cemetery often evokes images of mahogany coffins, ornate headstones and embalmed bodies. That’s not the case for The Forest Conservation Burial Ground, the first burial ground in Oregon that is completely...

Capiche Conversations: Interview with Suzanne Willow, Co-Owner of The Forest Conservation Burial Ground

Written on April 1, 2021. Posted in Media.

Where would you like to spend your death? Do you want to return to the earth, becoming part of nature in a way that continues to nurture the life around you? Would you like to be enveloped in the beauty...

Good Grief with Cheryl Jones - Bury Me Natural: The Forest Conservation Burial Ground episode

Bury Me Natural: The Forest Conservation Burial Ground on Good Grief with Cheryl Jones

Written on December 16, 2020. Posted in Media.

Mary Ann Perry, the sexton for The Forest Conservation Burial Ground, joins VoiceAmerica host Cheryl Jones to talk about first funerals at The Forest, the principles of green burial, and what led her...