the Natural Burial Company - USA

Natural Burial Company Resellers

At this time, we prefer to sell our coffins through resellers who can either provide, consult, or direct you to services in their area to help you with your "natural end" needs. Visit our online map for a referral to the closest natural funeral service provider or contact near you.

FEATURED RESELLERS - Summer 2008:

Pacific Northwest USA

• Mt. Scott Funeral Home - 3rd generation full service funeral home offering natural burial and home funeral service facilitation; Portland, Oregon

Mt. Scott Funeral Home, established in 1924, has been helping families cope with the loss of a loved one for over 80 years.  Family owned and operated for three generations, we strongly believe in treating our families with the compassion, integrity, and professionalism we would want to receive. Mt. Scott offers conventional as well as natural burial "packages", including no-embalming, a biodegradable or clean burning coffin, and assistance in locating a natural burial opportunity in a cemetery.

• Peoples Memorial Funeral Cooperative - Full Service funeral coop; Seattle

"People's Memorial Funeral Cooperative provides simple dignified, affordable final arrangements to residents of the Seattle – King County, Washington area. While the vast majority of our members choose simple cremation, we offer the full range of cremation and burial choices. As a member-owned cooperative, our focus is on serving our members and their families rather than on meeting sales quotas."

•   Natural Burial Company - Biodegradable Casket and Urn Gallery, Portland, Oregon - Open January, 2008 - WHOLESALE; RETAIL - GALLERY ONLY*

The Natural Burial Company imports, m and sells biodegradable caskets and ash burial urns for people and pets. Also available: books and media for grief, death and dying; handmade wooden coffins; fine memorial urns, and other green grave goods.

The Natural Burial Company's local gallery seeks out funeral service providers, funeral planners, and ritualists in the greater Portland area, and serves as a networking hub to those who are providing natural options for their clients. It wholesales its wide range of natural coffins and urns through approved resellers and uses its profits to support education and consultation on the subject of natural burial.    Member: Co-Op America Green Business Network; ICCFA; and the Provender Alliance

*the Natural Burial Company has a limited selection of products to sell nationwide at retail, if a reseller is not conveniently located near you. Retail Items: The EveryBody Coffin (tm), the Plain Pine Box, and ARKA Ecopod or Somerset Willow, special order only. E-mail or call to arrange a purchase.
 

 

Northeast USA

• Mourning Dove Studio - Transforming Life and Death through the arts..,

• Ecopods, Somerset Willows, and fine-art coffins; Boston

...At Mourning Dove Studio we offer one of a kind hand made life chests, caskets, urns, and shrouds. We also provide eco-friendly products newly available in this country, such as the ARKA Ecopod and the Somerset Willow casket. Our mission is to inspire you to take control of how you mark the milestones of life and death. Our products and services help you to personalize final rites of passage and leave a legacy of love. We also offer creative workshops to support you in making your own memorial art...

• Prout Funeral Home - Verona, New Jersey
  • 370 Bloomfield Avenue
    Verona, NJ 07044
    Phone Number: (973) 239-2060                   

Prout Funeral Home is a full-service funeral home in northern New Jersey, just 15 minutes from New York. Featured in a number of newspaper and magazine articles, Prout's is well-known for its natural approach. In addition to being an innovative 3rd generation service that has its electricity supplied by solar panels, they offer home-funeral facilitation, formaldehyde-free embalming and no embalming treatments, and also stock a wide range of the Natural Burial Company's wicker coffins. They have work with natural burial cemeteries, including Greensprings in upstate New York and Steelmantown Cemetery in New Jersey.

 

NOTE:: This is only our "Featured Reseller" page - it is not a complete list of all the providers who may offer our coffins - please contact us to find out about all of the resellers in your region.

Where to Buy and Use our Goods

Visit our featured reseller page here...

With the exception of the EveryBody Coffin, and special orders for the Somerset Willow and the ARKA Ecopod, we don't sell retail except for out of our Natural Burial Company biodegradable coffin gallery, but we're happy to refer you to our affiliates in your area.

We offer wholesale discounts for reseller and volume purchases, and we don't restrict our wholesale sales to licensed funeral homes - death care guides, clergy, celebrants, cemeteries, co-ops, and others can sell our products to you at any time - but we STRONGLY RECOMMEND using an experienced funeral service provider (either home or conventional) or other consultant to assist you.

There are many things to discuss in planning a burial, cremation or funeral. Gone are the days when the flow of close-knit family and generations of tradition are on hand to guide the less-experienced. Today, most families live far apart and the details are often kept private (or even un-thought about!) til the last minute.

We encourage you to use a consultant, guide, or funeral director precisely because each end-of-life situation is unique and our product sales staff would not want to mis-inform you at any stage of the process.

PLEASE NOTE: WE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY RETAIL CUSTOMER SUPPORT WITH PLANNING OR ORGANIZING FUNERAL SERVICES.

Experienced funeral service providers are trained in the use of caskets in your city or state, and they can supply you with this assistance.

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WHERE CAN YOU GO for a Natural Burial?

Many folks wonder where they can get a natural burial. In the UK, over 200 woodland burial sites around the country now offer people a wide selection of opportunities for a natural end, where you can be buried without embalming, in a biodegradable casket, and "turn into a tree." We keep a growing list on our website.

A small but growing number of sites are available in the US and, while we don't have many official conservation cemeteries yet, you can make a natural start just by finding a cemetery that will accept your biodegradable casket without a outer liner or vault. Pioneer cemeteries may do this, as may private cemeteries who do not have to adhere to a corporate policy that needs vault sales for profit margins and landscape maintenance. Be sure to read the free online excerpt of "Be a Tree, the Manual for Turning Yourself into a Forest", to learn more about this exciting field.

No one is yet creating a comprehensive list of North American natural burial options. Forest of Memories has a list, but the group relies on cemeteries to self-identify, and many of the partial or less-than-perfect options are still not shown there. We keep a short list in the sidebar to the right of this article, and will develop something more comprehensive in the very near future.

IF YOU OFFER GREEN BURIAL, PLEASE LET US KNOW

If you learn of (or operate) a cemetery that offers liner-free, vault-free burials anywhere in the US or Canada but NOT in the Jewish section (since non-Jews are not allowed there)  please let us know - and submit the link to Forest of Memories, as well.

Where to Buy and Use our Goods

Visit our featured reseller page here...

With the exception of the EveryBody Coffin, and special orders for the Somerset Willow and the ARKA Ecopod, we don't sell retail except for out of our Natural Burial Company biodegradable coffin gallery, but we're happy to refer you to our affiliates in your area.

We offer wholesale discounts for reseller and volume purchases, and we don't restrict our wholesale sales to licensed funeral homes - death care guides, clergy, celebrants, cemeteries, co-ops, and others can sell our products to you at any time - but we STRONGLY RECOMMEND using an experienced funeral service provider (either home or conventional) or other consultant to assist you.

There are many things to discuss in planning a burial, cremation or funeral. Gone are the days when the flow of close-knit family and generations of tradition are on hand to guide the less-experienced. Today, most families live far apart and the details are often kept private (or even un-thought about!) til the last minute.

We encourage you to use a consultant, guide, or funeral director precisely because each end-of-life situation is unique and our product sales staff would not want to mis-inform you at any stage of the process.

PLEASE NOTE: WE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY RETAIL CUSTOMER SUPPORT WITH PLANNING OR ORGANIZING FUNERAL SERVICES.

Experienced funeral service providers are trained in the use of caskets in your city or state, and they can supply you with this assistance.

SEE CONTINUATION OF POST FOR WHOLESALE PURCHASING INFORMATION

WHERE CAN YOU GO for a Natural Burial?

Many folks wonder where they can get a natural burial. In the UK, over 200 woodland burial sites around the country now offer people a wide selection of opportunities for a natural end, where you can be buried without embalming, in a biodegradable casket, and "turn into a tree." We keep a growing list on our website.

A small but growing number of sites are available in the US and, while we don't have many official conservation cemeteries yet, you can make a natural start just by finding a cemetery that will accept your biodegradable casket without a outer liner or vault. Pioneer cemeteries may do this, as may private cemeteries who do not have to adhere to a corporate policy that needs vault sales for profit margins and landscape maintenance. Be sure to read the free online excerpt of "Be a Tree, the Manual for Turning Yourself into a Forest", to learn more about this exciting field.

No one is yet creating a comprehensive list of North American natural burial options. Forest of Memories has a list, but the group relies on cemeteries to self-identify, and many of the partial or less-than-perfect options are still not shown there. We keep a short list in the sidebar to the right of this article, and will develop something more comprehensive in the very near future.

IF YOU OFFER GREEN BURIAL, PLEASE LET US KNOW

If you learn of (or operate) a cemetery that offers liner-free, vault-free burials anywhere in the US or Canada but NOT in the Jewish section (since non-Jews are not allowed there)  please let us know - and submit the link to Forest of Memories, as well.