Cemetery Research, Education, and Services
Services
Personal, attentive care for burial places, with clear communication and respect for the people and memories they hold.
Gravestone Cleaning: Cleaning guided by the material and condition of the stone, with photographic documentation.
Planting & Ground Care: Small planting and grounds-care projects suited to the site and permitted by the cemetery.
Seasonal Care: Recurring visits arranged around your wishes and the cemetery’s requirements.
Individual Care Visits: Thoughtful tending, photographs, and a written update when you cannot visit yourself.
Flowers & Memorial Placement: Placement of flowers, wreaths, or personal tributes, with photographs afterward.
Dates of Remembrance: Visits for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and other meaningful occasions.
Condition Documentation & Specialist Referrals: Recording visible concerns and identifying when specialist conservation or structural assessment is needed.
Special Projects: Individual proposals for family plots, larger memorials, and other care or documentation needs.
Research & Education
Research & Tours
Explore cemeteries as living cultural landscapes through guided walks, archival inquiry, and close attention to place.
Stone and Root Tours: Monthly walks at exploring stone, ecology, weathering, and memory.
Private Group Walks: Experiences shaped around your group’s interests in architecture, materials, nature, and public memory.
Family & Burial-Place Research: Archival research connecting people, memorials, and the landscapes around them.
Cemetery Mapping & Documentation: Grave location, spatial mapping, photography, and project-based documentation for families, communities, and organizations.
Education
Develop the knowledge and confidence to understand cemetery landscapes and participate thoughtfully in their care.
Gravestone Care Workshops: An introduction to identifying materials, observing condition, documenting markers, and understanding when cleaning is appropriate. In development.
Landscape & Material Workshops: Guided learning about geology, ecology, weathering, and the relationships between built and living environments.
Research & Creative Practice Workshops: Explore mapping, drawing, archival research, and field observation as ways of learning from place.
Talks & Custom Programs: Presentations and learning experiences for schools, community groups, cultural organizations, and cemetery stewards.
