Green Meadow at Fountain Hill Cemetery: A Natural Burial Ground

Green Meadow at Fountain Hill Cemetery: A Natural Burial Ground Green Meadow is the first -- and only -- green cemetery in the greater Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania. Graves are marked with indigenous fieldstone.

Situated in historic Fountain Hill Cemetery, Green Meadow is a quarter-acre meadow of native wildflowers and grasses where the dead are laid to rest in vaultless graves, in caskets made from readily-biodegradable materials like pine, wicker, or cardboard. Embalming is banned, metal caskets and vaults are prohibited. The goal: the allow the dissolution of one's remains, to rejoin the body to the natural cycle of life, to return dust to dust.

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1121 Graham Street
Fountain Hill, PA
18015

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