Michael Cordes, board member, and Shelley Morhaim, former vice president with the Green Burial Association of Maryland, walk a trail in the Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum. Soon to open as Maryland's first dedicated green burial cemetery, Serenity Ridge, will offer an alternative to traditional burials and cremation, with a focus on minimizing waste and contamination to the natural environment.

Michael Cordes, board member, and Shelley Morhaim, former vice president with the Green Burial Association of Maryland, walk a trail in the Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum. Soon to open as Maryland's first dedicated green burial cemetery, Serenity Ridge, will offer an alternative to traditional burials and cremation, with a focus on minimizing waste and contamination to the natural environment. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun )

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Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum, will offer an alternative to traditional burials and cremation, with a focus on minimizing waste and contamination to the natural environment.

Michael Cordes, board member, and Shelley Morhaim, former vice president with the Green Burial Association of Maryland, walk a trail in the Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum. Soon to open as Maryland's first dedicated green burial cemetery, Serenity Ridge, will offer an alternative to traditional burials and cremation, with a focus on minimizing waste and contamination to the natural environment.

Michael Cordes, board member, and Shelley Morhaim, former vice president with the Green Burial Association of Maryland, walk a trail in the Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum. Soon to open as Maryland's first dedicated green burial cemetery, Serenity Ridge, will offer an alternative to traditional burials and cremation, with a focus on minimizing waste and contamination to the natural environment. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun )

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A deer watches visitors walk through Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum, which is billed as Maryland's first dedicated green burial cemetery.

A deer watches visitors walk through Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum, which is billed as Maryland's first dedicated green burial cemetery. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun )

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Michael Cordes, board member, and Shelley Morhaim, former vice president of the Green Burial Association of Maryland, walk on a trail along Bens Run in the Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum.

Michael Cordes, board member, and Shelley Morhaim, former vice president of the Green Burial Association of Maryland, walk on a trail along Bens Run in the Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun )

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Shelley Morhaim, former vice president, and Michael Cordes, board member with the Green Burial Association of Maryland, walk a trail in the Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum.

Shelley Morhaim, former vice president, and Michael Cordes, board member with the Green Burial Association of Maryland, walk a trail in the Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun )

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From left, Howard Berg, Baltimore County Council Chairman Julian E. Jones Jr., Shelley Morhaim and Dan Morhaim walk through the area that will become Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum, which is located on a 177-acre property in Windsor Mill.

From left, Howard Berg, Baltimore County Council Chairman Julian E. Jones Jr., Shelley Morhaim and Dan Morhaim walk through the area that will become Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum, which is located on a 177-acre property in Windsor Mill. (Barbara Haddock Taylor)

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