clovery

The Clovery Woods Of Rest project in Fyvie, Turrif, was the first privately owned, eco-friendly green burial service in Scotland.

It defines the natural environment, with some nostalgia, as a collection of not only forests, rivers and mountains - wood, water and rock, the parts by which Schama groups his text - but also of thatch-roofed farmhouses in sylvan glens, a curl of smoke rising from the chimneys and lambs bleating in clovery meadows full of swarming bees, fair-haired children dancing around a maypole and strong elders smoking their meerschaums.

The family hope to fulfil her dream of being buried in a bamboo casket in the Clovery Woods of Rest at Fyvie.