prairiecreekconservationcemetery.org
A group of Gainesville residents met monthly for three years before this cemetery existed; burials began in 2010. The nonprofit Conservation Burial Inc. runs 78 acres inside Prairie Creek Preserve near Paynes Prairie, with Alachua Conservation Trust handling restoration and a county easement blocking development in perpetuity. Florida licenses it as an exempt cemetery and the Green Burial Council certifies it at the highest level: no embalming fluid, no vaults, flowering meadow and oak forest instead of mown turf.
It suits people who want a burial fee to buy and mend land, and families at ease in a place left deliberately wild. It suits less well anyone expecting a single building to handle everything, since care of the body goes through a funeral home or a home funeral while the office sits downtown on West University Avenue. Mapping apps often aim visitors at a private residential road, so stay on County Road 234 to the marked entrance.
Address: Gainesville, FL, 7204 SE County Road 234
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