Our award-winning company, founded in 1996, aspires to protect, restore and permanently endow one million acres of wild-lands over the coming decades. More than merely financing protection, the inherently spiritual nature of our endeavor means that we can foster closer ties between human communities and the natural communities that they depend on.

     Our main focus is to develop multi-functional memorial nature preserves that we create with the cooperation and assistance of non-profit organizations and families who want to protect their property forever. Through becoming members of the preserve during life, and choosing burial in the preserve after, our clients leave a permanent legacy for their families, their communities and the natural world. We are committed to being the leaders in environmentally and socially responsible death care.

More than simple "green" or natural burial, MEI aspired to create a new option that we now call "conservation burial": one that employs natural burial for a higher conservation purpose.  

In 1998, we opened the Ramsey Creek Preserve (RCP) on 38 acres in rural South Carolina, arguably the world's first conservation burial ground. The space provided us with a living laboratory to develop the techniques required to ensure that the spaces are protected and ecologically restored. The principles we developed here became the core for the Green Burial Council's standards for natural burial and conservation burial. 

It is this experience and mission that we bring to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit's Honey Creek Woodlands project.

If you would like more information about us and 
our company, please visit our website at: 
www.memorialecosystems.com