Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve

Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve Natural Cemetery Preserve At the same time, green burial offers the opportunity to give something back to the land and to the life that springs from it.

At Greensprings, we have these goals: to provide a commonsense, traditional, affordable alternative to contemporary burial—an alternative that respects you and your loved ones. Burial at Greensprings allows each person, each family who is part of Greensprings to take personal pride in helping to restore the land that will be their eternal home. So while Greensprings is a cemetery, it doesn’t look

like one. Instead, it looks much like a nature preserve with trails wandering through. And instead of those endless rows of somber stone, simply—Trees. Wildflowers. Wind in the grass. Here and there you’ll notice flat stone markers—fieldstones unearthed, perhaps, when a grave was dug or bought rough-cut from a local quarry, then engraved and laid flush with the earth. But markers aren’t required. Some people choose plantings of native flowers and ferns on grave sites. Others simply let surrounding meadow plants take root. Indeed, green burial is a new idea: the idea that in choosing how and where we are buried, each one of us can conserve, sustain, and protect the earth . . . the earth from which we came and to which we shall return.

Gorgeous day in the meadows! The Greensprings Land Stewardship Committee met. Then they inspected a Tree Swallow nestbox...
06/03/2026

Gorgeous day in the meadows! The Greensprings Land Stewardship Committee met. Then they inspected a Tree Swallow nestbox that was installed two weeks ago: two eggs!

Greensprings is surrounded by conserved woodlands on our north, south, and west sides. Now FLLT is conserving 130 acres ...
05/30/2026

Greensprings is surrounded by conserved woodlands on our north, south, and west sides. Now FLLT is conserving 130 acres to our east! See the Finger Lakes Land Trusts’ spring edition of The Land Steward to learn more about this addition to the Emerald Necklace.

Greensprings staff and volunteers were filled with so much joy and sense of community participating in this year’s Ithac...
05/30/2026

Greensprings staff and volunteers were filled with so much joy and sense of community participating in this year’s Ithaca Festival parade! We dressed as pollinators. Fun!

One of our wonderful volunteers spotted a porcupine at Greensprings! Wow!!!
05/27/2026

One of our wonderful volunteers spotted a porcupine at Greensprings! Wow!!!

Preparing for a burial. Reach out to us at info@naturalburial.org if you would like to join our burial volunteers team.
05/25/2026

Preparing for a burial. Reach out to us at [email protected] if you would like to join our burial volunteers team.

Article about Greensprings as we celebrate our 20th anniversary this year!
05/20/2026

Article about Greensprings as we celebrate our 20th anniversary this year!

Marking 20 years, Greensprings Natural Cemetery in Newfield offers families simple, eco-friendly burials in a 130-acre nature preserve, blending grief support w...

Please join us tomorrow at Greensprings for our Garden Club from 10am to noon. Bring tools and gear if you have them, or...
05/20/2026

Please join us tomorrow at Greensprings for our Garden Club from 10am to noon. Bring tools and gear if you have them, or we can provide. We hope to see you there!

The Cayuga Bird Club led a bird walk at 7 am today. Lots of birds! Lots of birders! (20+) It is peak migration. Come ear...
05/17/2026

The Cayuga Bird Club led a bird walk at 7 am today. Lots of birds! Lots of birders! (20+) It is peak migration. Come early to enjoy your own bird walk. 🙂

The bobolinks are back! Each year we celebrate the return of the bird that dwells in open meadows like Greensprings. Yes...
05/05/2026

The bobolinks are back! Each year we celebrate the return of the bird that dwells in open meadows like Greensprings. Yesterday we spotted six males. They are establishing territories and the females will arrive soon. Then nest on the ground.

The Bobolinks are coming back! Yesterday we spotted two male Bobolinks flying across the Bobolink Meadow.

Article about natural burial from the AP. Features our friends at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery in Florida.
05/01/2026

Article about natural burial from the AP. Features our friends at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery in Florida.

Your carbon footprint doesn’t end when you die. Conventional death practices like embalming, cremation and getting buried in a casket can have significant environmental and climate impacts.

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Newfield, NY
14867

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