Red Hills Community Cemetery

Natural burials in a woodland setting.

The mission of the Red Hills Community Cemetery (RHCC) is to provide its members with the services and setting for natural burial, while conserving, restoring, and stewarding the Cemetery’s ecosystem for future generations.

The Red Hills Community Cemetery (RHCC) aspires to sustain a conservation cemetery in Florida’s Big Bend region that preserves and enhances biodiversity and fosters meaningful connections among people, nature, and the cycles of life and death.

Red Hills Community Cemetery wants to hear from you, understand community needs, and identify interest.

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“We were happy to recently learn about the Red Hills Community Cemetery. For us, becoming members gives us a way to make a final act of kindness to this earth that has been our home by helping to conserve a small portion of it in perpetuity and to avoid adding more unnecessary chemicals or emissions to its environment.”

- Natalie & Darrell White

“I always thought my only option was cremation because I've never been a fan of having my body pumped up with chemicals and buried in an impermeable casket in the ground. When I learned about green burial it checked all the boxes. Environmentally sound, deeply meaningful for myself and my loved ones, in a place that has been my home for the longest of any other place, and how it is the completion of the circle of life, going back to where we came from.”

- Jane Terrell

“I want a conservation cemetery here because of the simplicity of laying my body down in nature when I’m done with it. This speaks to me in a way toxic embalming and manicured lawn cemeteries do not. While I’m alive I want to walk the cemetery trails and remember my beloved departed friends as the birds kettle overhead and the wildflowers bloom. This project honors life as it honors death.”

- Kelly McGrath

“It seems the most natural thing on earth, a smooth transition. I'll return to the earth I came from, very simply. How lovely. The simplicity of it: not involving all sorts of people I don't know. Just some family and friends and a few others to make it happen. ”

- Peter Crockett

“I’ve been interested in natural burial for several years since its environmental impact is so much less than cremation and traditional burials. Living in a heavily wooded neighborhood with an abundance of wildlife and birds (even a pair of eagles) convinced me that a similar type of environment is where I would want to be after death.”

- Kathy McCharen

“Mother Earth generously provides all my human body, my ‘earth suit’, needs to live - air, water, food, shelter. All I can give back, and pay forward, is this body.”

- Davida Johns