Perhaps one would not expect musicians playing, artists creating and kids running through the grass meadows at a loved one's burial. However, for Eleanor Blair, this was the reality of the first ...

The family of Janet McAliley, a four-term Miami-Dade County Public School Board member, lifts her biodegradable casket into a grave during a funeral service at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery.

Q. “I’ve been investigating the ‘green burial’ movement and apparently the only option for me in Florida would be the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery in Gainesville. This would be quite a schlep ...

Mourners lay flowers on a body wrapped in a shroud before it is lowered into a grave at Heartwood Preserve Conservation Cemetery near Tampa, Florida. A. Ragan Courtesy of Heartwood Preserve A growing ...

Richard Anthony Palmer, 85, of Ponte Vedra Beach, died June 21, 2024. Burial is 10:00 a.m., July 11, 2024, at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery in Gainesville. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - After a two-year battle with cancer, Joseph Fitzgerald was determined to leave his final resting place to Mother Nature. On a quiet February day in rural Florida, ...

In life, McAliley was a moral pillar of Miami-Dade County: a 16-year school board member who crusaded for civil rights, the fair treatment of immigrants and many environmental causes. In death, she ...