Before
After (20 years)
What’s Included in Every Legacy?
Plant a micro-forest with your friends and family. You will be part of restoring 20 acres of forest! Learn about forest planting.
Natural burial, an environmentally-friendly return to the earth. Cremains accepted. Learn more about natural burial.
Professional photographs aka your memories in high resolution.
Pathways mean no need to walk across a grave to visit a loved one.
Access to events like fishing, lectures, art exhibitions, and much more.
Celebrating community forever. Support creation of nature trails, boardwalks, food forests, cottages, and art studio spaces. Learn more about our innovative masterplan.
Save water. Micro-forests need 3-5 years of minimal irrigation. Then, never again.
No herbicides, chemical fertilizers, or pesticides ever.
Support enhancing 12-acres of on-site wetlands.
Offsetting carbon emissions.
Why Plan Ahead?
Choosing a final resting place is a big decision. There are many benefits to starting now.
The sooner you plant, the bigger the forest and the more carbon sequestered.
See your impact and make memories with your loved ones now. See how.
Remove burden of decision making and financial stress for loved ones.
Lock in today's price. As Hope develops, prices are subject to increase.
Financing available for pre-planners. 0% financing for 12 months.
Licensed and Regulated
Hope Eternal Gardens is a natural burial cemetery. We are licensed and regulated at State, District, and County levels.
What We Deliver
When you choose Hope, you’re joining a community focused on celebrating life, caring for our planet, giving our loved ones a vibrant place to visit, and sharing beautiful memories together.
Personalized Experience
Every forest is designed to celebrate individuality. Is there a personally significant tree? Let’s find one to include. Want to keep the family close together? You got it. Not interested in planting? We can do that for you.
More Space, More Impact
Sometimes bigger is better. Each burial space features at least two times more square footage of forest than burial space. Most have a forest that is three times bigger. Want to contribute 10,000 square feet of forest? You got it.
A Focus on Forever
Hope is designed to be here for generations to come. That’s why our masterplan features other amenities like a plant shop, rentable cottages, art studios, community spaces, and much more. In addition to being great spaces, they will also support Hope's maintenance and development.
How It Works
We make it easy to leave a sustainable, lasting legacy.
4. You enjoy.
Congratulations! You have now joined the community of people who want this special kind of living legacy.
You will have first access to events, updates, and the option to schedule private visits with your friends and family.
Get ready for updates on the micro-forest like, "The red maples are turning red! A monarch butterfly landed on the tree you planted with your mom!"
Free On-Demand Library
Coming Soon
Creating Life out of Loss: Your Legacy at Hope
Coming Soon
What is Natural Burial & Choosing a Cemetery
Clients Give Hope 5 Stars
I decided to be buried at Hope Eternal Gardens after speaking with the owners who were very helpful. There was no pressure which I really appreciated. I knew nothing about natural burial before speaking to them and now I feel like this is a great choice for me.
I am looking forward to planting some trees with my mom (who will also be buried here) and family members, which I hope will create a memory that can live on after I leave this earth.
Maureen Brady
Beautiful location and "green" in so many ways. The work that's being done to ensure respectful, natural burials, is unlike anything I've witnessed before. Lauren and Chris's expertise and love of the site is clear. We are lucky that such a place exists. Working through grief is a difficult climb, but knowing that your lost loved one will be part of a forest that will grow and flourish over time brings an unexpected comfort.
Eric
The staff at Hope Eternal Gardens have enabled us to design our own resting place in a secret garden in a grove. We are now preparing to plant our forest and will get to grow with it over the years. This has been a rewarding and inspiring experience and it has allowed us to celebrate the rebirth of this piece of land as a self sustaining grove of native plants. It has already brought us joy and sweet memories and will allow us to restore a portion of Southwest Florida’s native environment as our legacy.
Casey Gundlach
This place is amazing. It is an (un)cemetery. It is a place to honor and remember loved ones through nature. It is just so hard to put into words how beautiful it is as an idea and a place.
Mitchell Austin
What a phenomenal project brought to life by a couple of amazing individuals. Lauren and Chris are two people with the perfect amount of empathy, personal experience and professionalism to handle such a sensitive time for our family at Hope Eternal Gardens. The site is not only well architected but also peaceful grounds to reflect and connect. The planting experience was also executed at a level that my family and I could have only dreamed of. Hope Eternal Gardens has been a blessing to us. I have no doubt in my mind other families will feel the same!
Thania Albert
I have been working with Hope Eternal Gardens for five years and firmly believe in the concept of forest restoration combined with burial sites! It is an amazing thing they are doing!
Jim Stump
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I decided to be buried at Hope Eternal Gardens after speaking with the owners who were very helpful. There was no pressure which I really appreciated.
I knew nothing about natural burial before speaking to them and now I feel like this is a great choice for me.
I am looking forward to planting some trees with my mom (who will also be buried here) and family member.which I hope will create a memory that can live on after I leave this earth.
Maureen Brady
Beautiful location and "green" in so many ways. The work that's being done to ensure respectful, natural burials, is unlike anything I've witnessed before. Lauren and Chris's expertise and love of the site is clear. We are lucky that such a place exists. Working through grief is a difficult climb, but knowing that your lost loved one will be part of a forest that will grow and flourish over time brings an unexpected comfort.
Eric
The staff at Hope Eternal Gardens have enabled us to design our own resting place in a secret garden in a grove. We are now preparing to plant our forest and will get to grow with it over the years. This has been a rewarding and inspiring experience and it has allowed us to celebrate the rebirth of this piece of land as a self sustaining grove of native plants. It has already brought us joy and sweet memories and will allow us to restore a portion of Southwest Florida’s native environment as our legacy.
Casey Gundlach
I have been working with Hope Eternal Gardens for five years and firmly believe in the concept of forest restoration combined with burial sites! It is an amazing thing they are doing!
Jim Stump
What a phenomenal project brought to life by a couple of amazing individuals. Lauren and Chris are two people with the perfect amount of empathy, personal experience and professionalism to handle such a sensitive time for our family at Hope Eternal Gardens. The site is not only well architected but also peaceful grounds to reflect and connect. The planting experience was also executed at a level that my family and I could have only dreamed of. Hope Eternal Gardens has been a blessing to us. I have no doubt in my mind other families will feel the same!
Thania Albert
This place is amazing. It is an (un)cemetery. It is a place to honor and remember loved ones through nature. It is just so hard to put into words how beautiful it is as an idea and a place.
Mitchell Austin
Impact as of March 2025
7,550
Native and Florida-friendly Plants Planted
Plants sourced from local native plant nurseries (EarthBalance®, Eco Tech Environmental, Sandhill Native Growers, Natives of Corkscrew, Kings Nursery, Sebastian River Farms), or grown at Hope.
2,007
Square Feet of Forest created
Forests created by implementing the Miyawaki forest planting method.
1.5
Acres Seeded with Wildflowers
Seeds (Florida Upland Meadow mix) sourced from Ernst Conservation Seeds, a native seed producer and supplier.
35
Native and Florida-friendly Plant Species
Plants sourced from local native plant nurseries (EarthBalance®, Eco Tech Environmental, Sandhill Native Growers, Natives of Corkscrew, Kings Nursery, Sebastian River Farms), or grown at Hope.
46
Pounds of Carbon Sequestered
(or emissions from 2 Gallons of Gas)
Estimated using i-Tree. Emissions estimated using data from US Environmental Protection Agency "Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle."
