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At Interra Green Burial by Mueller Memorial we know that when the time comes, you’ll want your end of life services to have as little environmental impact as possible. In order to do that you need to find a way to return to the Earth naturally.
The problem is, traditional funeral homes and cremation societies only seem interested in offering two high impact services: flame cremation and casketed burial with embalming. How is there not an easy, ecological choice for the very natural act of dying?
We believe that as a funeral service provider it’s our responsibility to make low impact final disposition options available to you, including green burial, water cremation, and natural organic reduction (human composting).
The service you receive from Interra Green Burial by Mueller Memorial includes the personal care of Mary, Mandy, Nicole, Nichole, Scott, and the rest of our wonderful team. Here is what people we have served are saying about our service…
We understand that traditional funeral practices have an environmental impact on Minnesota and someone in the funeral profession needed to create a path to a more sustainable choice. So we sought information and training, and created local and national relationships to help make green funerals a choice for everyone.
In August 2022 Interra earned the National Funeral Directors’ Association Green Funeral Practices Award, in 2023 the Gold Level Award from Sustainable Stillwater, and in February 2023 Interra Green Burial became the only funeral service provider in Minnesota at the time to be certified by the national Green Burial Council.
To start planning a green burial the first step is getting in touch with one of our licensed Interra professionals. We can meet in person or over the phone and we will listen openly to exactly what you have in mind and help you find the services that are the best fit for you. Then we will get all of your plans written down so you can clearly share your intentions with your people.
To plan a green burial, water cremation, or natural body composting (which you may thought was impossible in Minnesota), call Interra Green Burial by Mueller Memorial at 651-774-9797 or send us an email at info@interraburial.com. Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, so if a death has occurred and your need is immediate, please call.
If your need is not urgent, feel free to explore our website to get comprehensive answers to your questions about natural burial options in MN so you can make a plan that dramatically lowers environmental impact and allows you to rejoin the Earth the natural way.
In February 2023 Interra Green Burial by Mueller Memorial became, at the time, the only funeral provider in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin to be certified by the national Green Burial Council.
At Interra Green Burial we believe it is our job to help you find the service that‘s right for you. For years you’ve been told you have to do funerals, cremation, and burial in a certain way which often uses chemicals, flame, plastics, stone, or metals, and that might not feel like the right fit for you. The end of someone’s life can reflect the ecological care and concerns they have had while living.
What if all you really want is for your body to return to the Earth in the most natural way possible? How can you find a green funeral home? It is because of these questions that we created Interra Green Burial by Mueller Memorial.
The team at Interra Green Burial understands that green funerals are seen as a new concept when really natural whole-body green burials are what humans have been doing for thousands of years. The first known human burial took place over 100,000 years ago and it was done completely naturally, so of course we can do that today.
But if you look for natural burial MN, you’ll find the vast majority of funeral homes don’t even offer natural services. These funeral homes have been performing traditional funerals the same way for the last 100+ years and have become so used to that practice that they don’t even know how to perform green funeral services.
For green burials, Minnesota has very few nationally approved and recommended options. Interra Green Burial offers services and has the experience that have earned us certification by the national Green Burial Council. We have also earned the National Funeral Directors’ Associations Green Funeral Practices Award for meeting their “exceptional standards and requirements of the association’s exclusive Green Funeral Practices™ Program.” We have also been awarded Gold Level certification by the Green Business Directory.
Interra Green Burial is a signature service provided by Mueller Memorial funeral home which is conveniently located in both White Bear Lake and St. Paul Minnesota. We have provided traditional funerals and cremation services for families in the Twin Cities and beyond for over 75 years, but we are passionate about providing every family the funeral services that are the right fit for them.
We’ve invested in Interra Green Burial because we believe that we have a responsibility to reduce the environmental impact of funerals while still providing the gathering, guidance, and ceremony we know families seek after the loss of a family member or friend.
At Interra we also understand that with loss comes grief, so we not only support your family at the time of loss, but for a full year after with our exclusive grief support program, Grief Compass™. We designed this program to provide just a little bit of help navigating grief in the year after loss. An email is delivered once a week that discusses a new concept associated with common grief experiences. Grief Compass has helped thousands of survivors better understand what they’re going through, while they’re going through it.
We encourage you to look around our website. There is a lot of information here if you’re new to the idea of organic interment, or if you know what you want and are ready to finalize your plans, we can help.
Services We Provide outlines the different shades of green burial available to you, as well as innovative options such as alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction. You can also search for the green cemetery that’s right for you. In Products you can browse items like green burial caskets, organic carriers, and shrouds.
If you have specific questions about planning a natural burial for yourself or someone you love, please feel free to contact us at 651-774-9797 or info@interraburial.com One of our funeral directors, Scott, Mary, Mandy, or Nicole is always available 24/7 to answer any questions you might have about green burial options.
If you’d prefer to explore planning on your own, you can click the Make Arrangements Online button to get started. Sometimes during that process questions arise, if that happens you can call us at 651-774-9797 any time to get answers, with no obligation. We’re here to help you get exactly what you want.
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