Larkspur Conservation features trails, picnic tables, a meadow — and, soon, "natural" burial plots. The founders hope the space will offer a more meaningful and less expensive way to say ...

Enter natural burials. A natural burial is quite simple. The remains are placed directly into the ground, without the use of a nonbiodegradable casket, burial vault or embalming fluid.

About green burial Natural burials forego embalming, coffins and burial vaults. “It’s the old-fashioned, old-timey burial process,” Granville Trustee Kevin Bennett said.

Bayside Cemetery in Potsdam was recently approved by the state to offer 'natural burials' in certain sections of the cemetery. Natural burial is an alternative to traditional, more expensive, and ...

In a green burial, the body is shrouded in natural fiber. Caskets, if they are used at all, are made of everything from simple pine to woven bamboo or wicker, sea grass, wool or cardboard.

The 48-acre cemetery has been offering natural burial sites along the trail for a number of years, Windridge family service manager Kelly Lawyer said.

The 48-acre cemetery has been offering natural burial sites along the trail for years, Windridge family service manager Kelly Lawyer said.

Natural burial is when the deceased is buried in a way that allows them to naturally decompose. The body is buried either in a biodegradable casket or a body shroud.

Human composting — or natural organic reduction — is an eco-friendly alternative burial option to the traditional casket burial or cremation methods.

Natural burial — the internment of the dead in a simple coffin or shroud without the use of embalming fluids, allowing natural decomposition of the body — is gaining traction.