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    • The Valley Conservation Cemetery
    • A Park for Bahama
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Our Story 


It started with a map. We unrolled it across the tailgate of a truck, tracing our fingers from the northern edge of Durham county, south to Chatham, east to RDU, and west to Hillsborough. The Triangle was booming, green spaces turning to parking lots, habitats to housing. 

How could two conservation professionals make a difference in protecting the watersheds, farmlands, creeks, and clean air this growing population depended on for health and wellbeing? How could they unite communities around the idea that land matters? 

We started our work with the unrolling of that map. Today, LANDMATTERS collaborates with community organizations, land trusts, private landowners, nonprofits, and green burial advocates and conservation burial professionals to increase capacity for conservation, connect people with land, and turn big picture thinking into strategy and action. 


Since 2015 LANDMATTERS has been developing a vision for the first conservation cemetery in central North Carolina. That vision is now becoming Bluestem Conservation Cemetery. Designed as a nature preserve honoring the Carolina Piedmont landscape, Bluestem will have miles of hiking trails, quiet areas for reflection, and designated areas for natural burial. Learn more about Bluestem here. 

Top photo: Mapping a Project, Durham County, North Carolina
​Bottom photo: Conservation Property, Durham County, North Carolina

who we are

Landmatters
Heidi and Jeff
Conservation Burial  Specialists

What we Do

Design
Consulting
Coaching
Our Projects
Bluestem Conservation Cemetery 

About Conservation Burial

Overview
Burial Grounds
Resources
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Definitions

Outreach

Conservation Burial Alliance 
Land Trust Partners
Community Collaboration
Land Trust Alliance Rally
​FailFest

CONTACT US

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Our Story
    • Meet Heidi & Jeff
    • Conservation Burial Specialists
  • CONSERVATION
    • Strategy and Planning
    • Consulting Services
  • BURIAL
    • Conservation Burial
    • Bluestem Conservation Cemetery
    • Building Burial Grounds
    • Growing the Movement
    • Definitions
    • Gallery
    • Resources
  • COACHING
    • For Nonprofits
    • For Community
  • PROJECTS
    • Bluestem Conservation Cemetery
    • The Valley Conservation Cemetery
    • A Park for Bahama
    • Completed Projects
    • FailFest
  • CONTACT US