Honey Creek Woodlands - Natural Burial Preserve Located in Conyers, Georgia
Affectionately known as the Horsemen by the community, these benefactors helped make Honey Creek possible. Father Francis Michael Stiteler is the second from the left.
Hundreds of acres of permanently protected mature forest border the old timber harvest area.
Catkins in Creek Spring 07
These animals often grow to be very large
Sitting wall under construction at shelter

Conservation Burial

Traditional, natural burial without embalming, and using a plain wooden casket or shroud is also known in the media as "green burial". Natural burial that serves a higher conservation purpose by being a part of efforts to restore or protect a significant tract of land is known as "conservation burial". The Honey Creek project is following standards and guidelines for conservation burial developed at the Ramsey Creek Preserve, and formalized by the Green Burial Council.

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The Honey Creek Woodlands is protecting a significant natural area that is also a key part of a much larger, landscape level conservation effort, the Mount Arabia Heritage Corridor. Within the monastery land holdings, the Honey Creek Woodlands site is an old terraced farm area that almost certainly grew cotton and other bare-earth crops ending less than 100 years ago. More recently, timber harvest of the predominantly pine forest that had grown from the old fields contributed to the need for active restoration, but also provided opportunities to nurture the area back to ecological health. Beginning in 2006, we started work to identify remaining diversity elements and to use this information to protect and develop hardwood forest, semi-open savannah and eastern wildflower meadows.
Crossing with wetland near Honey Creek
chipping the debris "released" many of the other plants such as this large colony of bracken fern (Pteridum aquilinum).
This is the view from the bottom of the hill very early spring 2007.
Honey Creek and wild azelea
Lodge chair and blooms
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