Have you ever been hiking through an area that was so captivating that you didn’t want to leave — ever? Well, that dream can come true at Bluestem, a fledgling 87-acre nature preserve in northern Orange County North Carolina. Here, you can walk through open pastures, in fringe forest, along a small piedmont creek, past a farm pond … and when you’re done hiking — for good — pick your favorite place in the preserve and stake your claim — for eternity. Because Bluestem isn’t another nature preserve with 3 or 4 miles of hiking trail, it’s also a conservational burial ground, a place where you can have a low-impact green burial and not only enjoy the rolling Piedmont landscape in perpetuity, but become a part of it as well.
Recently we caught up with Heidi Hannapel and Jeff Masten to learn more about this emerging conservation cemetery — and hiking destination — that they’re creating northwest of Durham.
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