Natural Burial Grounds Becoming Popular
LIMINGTON (NEWS CENTER) -- With all the talk about global warming, going green has become a way of life for many of us. Now, people in Maine can even go "out" green -- and spend eternity in a natural resting place.
From a video interview with Peter McHugh
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Another approach from New Zealand
A wine rack & shelf conversion kit
This one isn't for everyone! But if contemporary furniture design and maximising value for money is your thing, you might like to consider getting a few years of mileage from your casket with a furniture pre-use conversion.
Holds 32 bottles of wine and an assortment of books and nick-nacks with style. The curved sides make an interesting contrast to ordinary square bookshelves, and the handles add visual interest (and are great for moving it around!).
Friday, April 25, 2008
Cedar Brook Burial Ground: a Green Option
Cedar Brook Burial Ground is now open. Visitors are welcome to tour the Grounds.
Please call ahead to be sure Peter McHugh will be available to guide you. 207.637.2085
Paths with memorial stones and traditional plots are available.
Prices & Environmental considerations
For additional information contact Peter McHugh at 207.637.2085
For driving directions:
Call 207.637.2085 or email
Or use 175 Boothby Rd, Limington, ME to get directions online.
Or click here for map & directions from Portland, ME
Click here for map & directions from Hampton, NH Toll booth
Please call ahead to be sure Peter McHugh will be available to guide you. 207.637.2085
Paths with memorial stones and traditional plots are available.
Prices & Environmental considerations
For additional information contact Peter McHugh at 207.637.2085
For driving directions:Call 207.637.2085 or email
Or use 175 Boothby Rd, Limington, ME to get directions online.
Or click here for map & directions from Portland, ME
Click here for map & directions from Hampton, NH Toll booth
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Dust to dust (and no more) Limington’s green cemetery
by Cliff White, Staff Writer, Gorham Westbrook Gazette, November 16, 2007
Peter McHugh rides his all-terrain vehicle across the 2.1 acres of 150-acre property he has recently devoted to creating Maine’s first green cemetery.
He points out prospective locations for burial sites – little spaces of cleared land marked only by brown fallen leaves amidst a forest of mostly bare trees. . . .
Maine law allows small family graveyards no larger than a quarter-acre without the need for a permit, as long as no bodies are buried within 25 rods (413 feet) from the nearest land used for public recreation or potable water source. However, some years ago, McHugh decided he wanted to create a cemetery that gives others the option to be buried in a more natural fashion than otherwise available.
“I wanted to give people the option to be buried in the way they prefer,” McHugh says. “If they prefer a more environmentally friendly, less costly method of burial, then they should have that option.”
The town of Limington has no local ordinances regarding the development of commercial cemeteries, so McHugh needed only to apply to the state. In September, McHugh registered his cemetery – named the Cedar Brook Burial Ground after a local topographical feature – with the Department of Health and Human Services. McHugh says it took only about 10 days after the submission of his application to receive notice of his registration as a cemetery. . . .
McHugh allows customers to choose their own space in his cemetery, and to mark the spot with any local stone, which he says he will allow to be engraved. He says he will allow unlimited visitations by anyone interested. . . .
“Last year 22,500 cemeteries across the US buried 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, 104,272 tons of steel, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze, 30-plus million board feet of hardwoods and 1.6 million tons of concrete,” Christensen says. “In purely ecological terms, how we bury our dead is unsustainable.”
Mark Harris, author of the book “Grave Matters,” an examination of alternative methods of burial, said green cemeteries are becoming more popular in America because they are easier on the environment. . . .
Green burials can also help save a different kind of green – the kind found in people’s wallets.
“Between charges for embalming, a metal casket, a vault, a headstone, the cemetery charges for a plot and the opening and closing of a grave, and the fee for perpetual care and maintenance of the gravesite, funeral costs today can easily run $10,000 or more,” Harris said. “Green burials, in contrast, run in the low thousands of dollars, and can be less depending on personal choices. So the cost differential is huge.”
McHugh says saving on funeral costs is a significant factor in choosing a green burial ground.
“It’s a simpler, less costly way to bury your loved one,” McHugh says. “Traditional funerals can get very expensive. I wanted to give people another option.”
For complete article
Peter McHugh rides his all-terrain vehicle across the 2.1 acres of 150-acre property he has recently devoted to creating Maine’s first green cemetery.
He points out prospective locations for burial sites – little spaces of cleared land marked only by brown fallen leaves amidst a forest of mostly bare trees. . . .
Maine law allows small family graveyards no larger than a quarter-acre without the need for a permit, as long as no bodies are buried within 25 rods (413 feet) from the nearest land used for public recreation or potable water source. However, some years ago, McHugh decided he wanted to create a cemetery that gives others the option to be buried in a more natural fashion than otherwise available.
“I wanted to give people the option to be buried in the way they prefer,” McHugh says. “If they prefer a more environmentally friendly, less costly method of burial, then they should have that option.”
The town of Limington has no local ordinances regarding the development of commercial cemeteries, so McHugh needed only to apply to the state. In September, McHugh registered his cemetery – named the Cedar Brook Burial Ground after a local topographical feature – with the Department of Health and Human Services. McHugh says it took only about 10 days after the submission of his application to receive notice of his registration as a cemetery. . . .
McHugh allows customers to choose their own space in his cemetery, and to mark the spot with any local stone, which he says he will allow to be engraved. He says he will allow unlimited visitations by anyone interested. . . .
“Last year 22,500 cemeteries across the US buried 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, 104,272 tons of steel, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze, 30-plus million board feet of hardwoods and 1.6 million tons of concrete,” Christensen says. “In purely ecological terms, how we bury our dead is unsustainable.”
Mark Harris, author of the book “Grave Matters,” an examination of alternative methods of burial, said green cemeteries are becoming more popular in America because they are easier on the environment. . . .
Green burials can also help save a different kind of green – the kind found in people’s wallets.
“Between charges for embalming, a metal casket, a vault, a headstone, the cemetery charges for a plot and the opening and closing of a grave, and the fee for perpetual care and maintenance of the gravesite, funeral costs today can easily run $10,000 or more,” Harris said. “Green burials, in contrast, run in the low thousands of dollars, and can be less depending on personal choices. So the cost differential is huge.”
McHugh says saving on funeral costs is a significant factor in choosing a green burial ground.
“It’s a simpler, less costly way to bury your loved one,” McHugh says. “Traditional funerals can get very expensive. I wanted to give people another option.”
For complete article
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Cedar Brook Burial Ground is now open
There are very few Green Burial site in the United States.
Cedar Brook Burial Ground is the first "Green Cemetery" in Maine. Each burial site will have a specific location. Visitors will be able to find the resting place of the loved one using global positioning equipment.
For a tour of Cedar Brook Burial Ground or more information please call me at 207 637 2085 or e-mail me CBBG@MaineGreenCemetery.com
Joyce Foley, President, CBBG
Cedar Brook Burial Ground is the first "Green Cemetery" in Maine. Each burial site will have a specific location. Visitors will be able to find the resting place of the loved one using global positioning equipment.
For a tour of Cedar Brook Burial Ground or more information please call me at 207 637 2085 or e-mail me CBBG@MaineGreenCemetery.com
Joyce Foley, President, CBBG
Monday, October 1, 2007
Contact information
Contact Joyce Foley, PresdientCedar Brook Burial Ground, Inc.
175 Boothby Road
P.O. Box 511
Limington, ME 04049-0511
207.637.2085
Email: CBBG@MaineGreenCemetery.com
Visitors welcome year round
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