MAIN HALL: Community Program: Natural burial in VT, and Vermont Forest Cemetery
October 4, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
In even-numbered months, we provide a “Community Program” of public interest. Generally, these include a presentation by a local organization of social interest, selected and presented by the Grange Lecturer.
Join us at 5:00 PM for a showing of the award-winning documentary “From Earth to Earth: The Lost Art of Dying in America”.
At about 5:20, there will be a Q&A with the Founder of the Vermont Forest Cemetery.
This short (20 minute) documentary describes natural burial and its benefits through stories from the people who worked to make it legal in Vermont, and the stories of people whose experiences have shown the ways it can help come to terms with the loss of a loved one and with one’s own mortality and features the opening of and first burial at Vermont Forest Cemetery. The documentary will be followed by a Q&A session led by Michelle Hogle Acciavatti, Founder of Vermont Forest Cemetery.
Everyone is also invited to attended the second annual open house of VFC on Saturday, October 11th from 11-4pm. The schedule includes a tour, science activities, a labyrinth walk, art show, and music from Banjo Dan! Learn more and RSVP at: https://rb.gy/d6z2n0
About Vermont Forest Cemetery
Vermont Forest Cemetery, founded in October of 2023, is the first cemetery in Vermont that is devoted entirely to natural burial and located in Roxbury, Vermont. You can learn more about the Vermont Forest Cemetery at our website: www.cemetery.eco .
A family burial at VT Forest Cemetery
All are welcome to attend these FREE programs, in person or virtually
Those who wish are welcome to join us in person at the Grange Hall; we will be running the Room Air Filter Boxes to clean the air even with windows closed, as we expect they will need to be. Or, attend via Zoom!
Note: masks are optional for the Grange meeting, the Community Program and the Potluck dinner. Anyone is welcome to wear a mask! We ask that anyone who is feeling ill or has respiratory systems to please stay away until you feel well–we’ll be happy to see you then.
For this meeting and program, here’s the Google Meet:
