Welcome to Humber Woodland of Remembrance, the first green burial ground in Herefordshire
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Change to Spring Planting Day
Following the Prime Minister's announcement this week, regarding the timetable for coming out of lockdown, we have decided it will be best if we delay our Spring Planting Day for one week.
Best in the West!
For the third year running Humber Woodland of Remembrance has been awarded The Best Natural Burial Ground in the West Midlands!
Owls welcome!
Last year we were kindly donated a lovely big owl box! We have just put it up in the shelter belt and we're hoping it will be well used!
‘Woodland Burial’ by Pam Ayres
Don’t lay me in some gloomy churchyard shaded by a wall
Where the dust of ancient bones has spread a dryness over all,
Lay me in some leafy loam where, sheltered from the cold
Little seeds investigate and tender leaves unfold.
There kindly and affectionately, plant a native tree
To grow resplendent before God and hold some part of me.
The roots will not disturb me as they wend their peaceful way
To build the fine and bountiful, from closure and decay.
To seek their small requirements so that when their work is done
I’ll be tall and standing strongly in the beauty of the sun.
Reproduced by kind permission of Pam Ayres, from her book Surgically Enhanced
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