Apr 13, 2026 | Blog, Natural Burial & End‑of‑Life Options
Most people who start pre-planning a natural burial expect paperwork. What they find instead is a set of decisions that feel personal, grounded, and far more specific than they anticipated. Pre-planning a natural burial asks you to think about the land, the vessel,...
Mar 30, 2026 | Blog, Burial
On April 22, 2026, EARTHDAY.ORG marks the occasion with an official theme titled Our Power, Our Planet. The theme responds directly to more than 400 rollbacks of environmental protections in 2025. From clean air standards to land use rules, communities spent decades...
Mar 6, 2026 | Blog, Nature Preserve
On the night of March 4, 2026, an estimated 8,100 birds crossed Baltimore County while most people slept. By late April, that number climbs into the millions on a single active night, according to the BirdCast Migration Dashboard for Baltimore County. These birds...
Mar 2, 2026 | Blog, Family Grief & Resources
Most people planning a funeral spend little time thinking about how the space itself affects the people inside it. Grief is already a physical experience that raises cortisol and strains the nervous system, and the setting where a burial takes place becomes part of...
Jan 14, 2026 | Blog, Green Burial
Cremation seems like a lighter choice, but it leaves behind more carbon than most people expect. When you compare how cremation adds to the atmosphere with how natural burial sequestration heals the earth over time, the difference becomes practical, not just symbolic....
Jan 2, 2026 | Blog, Green Burial, News
The site of the first “green” burial in Serenity Ridge, a cemetery and nature reserve in Windsor Mill, Md. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post) By Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post (Read the full article) Mia Zinn was a member of her middle school ecology...
