Green Burials
Best Practices
Our practices conform to the highest standards set by The Green Burial Council, ensuring a truly eco-friendly and natural return to the earth.
How it Works
Family Groves is on conserved land, held in perpetuity as a conservation easement designated for cemetery use.
Memorial sites
on the hillside
Walking along a gently used path, family members gather on the forest-covered hillside just as the sun breaks through the fog. Downhill, it will be a couple of hours before the grey mists disperse, exposing a sweeping view of the ocean and shoreline from the ridgetop redwood groves. The walk to the family grove always brings the conversations to a halt, for a moment.
The memorial sites on the hillside in northwest Humboldt County all have in common what they lack: no headstones or above-ground monuments, no crypts or vaults, no toxic embalming fluids. Bodies are buried in simple caskets or shrouds, meant to decompose, or added to the earth as cremated remains.
Back to The Earth...
"Green conservation burial in the root zone of trees in Family Groves"
What if one's final act could give back to the earth?
The burial method, termed "entreement," incorporates individuals in the root zone, fostering environmental nourishment as our remains ascend into the trees.
The core concept establishes Family Groves that are perpetually designated for memorial and cemetery use, and to fund restoration and further land conservation.
The Sacred Groves community embodies principles of land conservation, natural burial, and a non-denominational and inclusive spiritial community sharing a profound reverence for nature.
The Sacred Groves Gallery
