West Laurel Hill

Riverbend Environmental Education Center has a fun new camp program for campers ages 11 – 13! Riverbend Trailblazers are self-motivated changemakers who are driven to make a difference in their community. They love getting their hands dirty, are passionate about...

Bala Cynwyd’s West Laurel Hill Cemetery just won gold for going green. It announced on Monday that its sustainable burial site, lovingly dubbed Nature’s Sanctuary, was granted Gold status under the SITES certification program. It’s the first cemetery in the country...

What a better day to talk about death than on All Hallows’ Eve? A couple of weekends ago, I went camping with friends. As we were driving to the mountains, we passed by a huge cemetery. Marveling at all the...

Philadelphia, including West Laurel Hill, is covered with invasive species of plants and trees like knotweed, hops, thistle, stilt grass, and poison ivy. One cemetery needs to remove all invasive species before introducing new ones. The best way to remove these invasive species of plants? Use “environmentally friendly vegetation control”. AKA Goats.