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Photo courtesy of Kestrel Land Trust

Imagine . . .

You are walking through the quiet of a hardwood forest
that opens into a tranquil meadow.

Views of Mount Tom and the Mount Holyoke Range lie ahead in the distance, across a landscape blanketed by working farms and lush forests. The natural pathway in front of you winds past native plants, and over rocky ridges, through woods so familiar to you. Wildflowers burst upward in the spring, leaves crunch under your feet in the fall, the clean scent of Eastern red cedars and hemlocks announces you are home. 
Join us in creating the first conservation cemetery in Massachusetts.

The Proposed Valley Conservation Cemetery

  • celebrates the natural landscape,
  • protects local habitat,
  • promotes green burial, and 
  • provides a healing place in nature for all.

The Land

  • provides a distinct sense of place that highlights the unique landscape of the Valley,
  • serves as a living, healing sanctuary through the practice of green burial, and
  • sustains the restoration and protection of native wildlife habitat.
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Photo courtesy of Kestrel Land Trust
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Photo courtesy of Green Burial Massachusetts

designed within a unique landscape

A CONSERVATION CEMETERY 
A conservation cemetery combines the conservation of a special place with the operation of a cemetery for green burial. Conservation cemeteries protect a landscape’s conservation values such as its native flora, fauna, stream or wetland features, grasslands and forestland. Conservation cemeteries reduce our negative impact on the earth.