Shifting Ground: Green Burials
A Widow, A Farm, A Final Request, Metamora, MI December 30, 2009 |
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The final episode in the series explores how death could bring life to a conservation movement in Michigan. It’s the story of a widow, a farm and a final request to be buried on the land she loves. But Joan Graham’s request didn’t end there. Her proposal aimed to turn a portion of the farm into a highly unusual cemetery—an environmentally friendly one, with no embalming, no fertilized lawn, just bodies interred in biodegradable caskets or shrouds with rocks and trees as grave markers. David Baron spent two years following Graham’s efforts to use her own death as a catalyst for conservation. Read more >> |