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Natural burial a growing trend
Ohio's first natural burial cemetery to open next month
by WKSU's KAREN SCHAEFER


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Karen Schaefer
 
Ohio's first natural burial cemetery will be opening next month in a nature preserve in Stark County. Officials say Foxfield Preserve will preserve land, while offering families a different kind of final resting ground.
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Native prairie and forest will predominate in Ohio's first nature preserve cemetery at Foxfield Preserve, part of The Wilderness Center in Stark County near Wilmot.

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