11/16/2025
“Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve,” an encore episode of Walk in the Park. Watch it online anytime, anywhere, at https://vimeo.com/owlgorge/greensprings
and on Ithaca, NY area TV channel 13 (on cable and on the Spectrum app) at the following times:
Sunday, November 16, at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
More showings next week.
In loving memory of Mary Woodsen.
“Save land. Plant yourself!” Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve in Newfield, NY, near Ithaca in the Finger Lakes region has been one of the nation’s leaders in the “green burial” movement. By returning to traditional practices of simple, low-impact burials on their large site, they are protecting land from development, preserving wildlife habitat, saving natural resources, keeping pollutants out of our environment, and returning the burial of our loved ones to the very personal, loving passage it once was.
In this encore episode of Walk in the Park ( #83) from August 2014, we take a tour of Greensprings with the founding president Mary Woodsen, as she explains what they do to Candace Currie who was visiting from Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA, and who was part of a group that was working to create a green cemetery in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.
Find out more about Greensprings at https://www.naturalburial.org/
Mary Woodsen passed away on November 4, and she herself was buried at Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve in the loving presence of family and friends.
Walk in the Park is a non-commercial, public access TV series on channel 13 in Ithaca, NY. Walk in the Park is produced by Owl Gorge Productions Owlgorge.com.
