Adelaide is supposed to be the city of churches, but I'm pretty sure I've never met a pastor (or priest as it would be here). Most churches here don't have much land with them, unless they're out in the sticks and many of them are long abandoned.
Anyhow, this reminded me of River Cottage and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in the UK. Have you heard of them over there? In one of his episodes he covers a church where pike are growing food in part of the (ahem) graveyard. Most of the land in old churches there is graveyard. I'm pretty sure there were no fresh burials in that one, however.
I'm not religious, but I find it sad that the church has been losing its reputation for being the carers, the place that always offered sanctuary and help for those in need. Growing nutritious food for their people would certainly bring some of that reputation back and be fitting of those Christian values I was always taught about as a child.
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Graveyard gardens could be neat!
Washington state just legalized human composting, which is really exciting to someone like me that has a big problem with being embalmed in preservatives and encased in concrete where my nutrients won't be bioavailable to anything ever again.
Ooh, this post is opening up a lot of fun rabbit holes!
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Now that conjures up visions of composting humans begging turned in the heap. 😨 I've never been keen on the embalming and burying idea, either. Cremation not so bad. I rather like the idea of having a tree planted over me, maybe in fetal position. Now I'm curious about what the official way of composting people is.
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There's a place by my cousin's home where, it's a crematorium but they have acres and acres of land they use as a "graveyard" but instead of graves people chose a tree to plant there.
And as for green burials and not being all pickled im harmful preservatives or boxed into concrete fortresses... I think you may like this interview:http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast/mark-harris-on-grave-matters-and-green-burials
Have you seen these things? This is what I want. Can you imagine walking through a forest and realizing that each tree literally represents one of your ancestors; looking around and knowing that your ancestry is literally a part of every living thing in that forest?
That's amazing!!! I need to send my wife that. It's perfect! "Trees instead of gravestones!"
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