The Centre for Natural Burial

By Lori Ceier, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.
When John and Bill Wilkerson inherited their 350-acre farm in northern Walton County, neither had any idea the future would hold stewardship of what would eventually be called Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve. Chufa and velvet bean growers by trade, the Wilkerson’s knew with rising taxes and property […]

Northwest Florida Daily News
Motorists can expect delays when traveling through north Walton County this afternoon. The funeral service for Army Sgt. Tim “Timmy” Padgett, who was killed in Afghanistan, will start at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church on Circle Drive in DeFuniak Springs.
Burial with full military honors will follow at Glendale Memorial […]

By Bruce Ritchie, Tallahassee Democrat
Fran Sullivan-Fahs has a worm composting bin where she recycles fruit peels and other kitchen scraps. She gives away worms as Christmas presents to other gardeners. So when she dies, Sullivan-Fahs says, she wants to be put in a plain wooden casket and buried without a vault to encourage decomposition. She […]

By Kathryn Bursch, Tampa Bay’s 10 News
Glendale, Florida – As John Wilkerson walks across the land he grew up on, he still marvels at its beauty. “Oh it is beautiful… look around,” says John Wilkerson of the Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve.And on this hike, Wilkerson is looking for a resting place; not just any spot […]

By Bruce Collier, Beachcomber Magazine
John Wilkerson is one of those fortunate people who gets to do what he loves, and call it his job. Wilkerson and his associate Barbara operate the Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve (GMNP), north of DeFuniak Springs. Wilkerson says he acquired the 350-acre property “the old fashioned way—I inherited it.”

LEONORA LaPETER, St. Petersburg TimesGLENDALE - Robert Pridgen lay in the vegetable cooler, in a poplar box cut from nearby trees. Lung cancer had taken him the day before. He was 48.