Organise your final resting place…or that for your entire family.

ONLY 30 PERPETUAL BURIAL PLOTS REMAIN, suitable for natural burials (& can hold up to 3-4 burials each, or up to 16 ash placements), in this first public cemetery in McLaren Vale.

Natural burials are currently the most environmentally friendly burial option in Australia.

See our cemetery schedule for information and investment details. ALL CEMETERY INCOME SUPPORTS THE TRANSFORMATION OF THIS WHOLE STATE HERITAGE SITE, for the long term good of the local community, plus visitors.

There are also areas for ash placements (including in garden areas to be increasingly planted out, as well as a memorial wall).

We also have a relationship with a local “Natural Burials” Funeral Director. And our chapel is available for hire for funeral services. 

Become a part of the history of South Australia and make your final home (or that of your loved ones) in a State Heritage (forever protected) place, the oldest cemetery in McLaren Vale, that is becoming more like a botanical garden over time via our community garden and placemaking project…

There are only a small number of cemetery plots remaining, and we are aiming to release and sell all these as prepaid sites in 2026 (payment can be across a two year period); so please be in touch if this is of interest (there are many more spots for ashes across the garden). 

All cemetery memorials are managed by us, so please be in touch about natural and place-sympathetic options.

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Please be in touch if you wish to make a time with the Curator to reserve a place in the cemetery or to discuss options. 

More information about our site…

There are records of local Aboriginal people attending the ceremony to lay the foundation stone for this first chapel, at a Harvest Thanksgiving service. Harvest Studio is currently seeking funding for a research project with fellow Visual Artist and Cultural Geographer Gavin Malone working with local custodian Karl Telfer, to highlight Aboriginal linkages to areas nearby our site. This will result in physical elements in the cemetery as part of our overall multi-cultural / historical placemaking project.

“The 1844 House of the Lord and Pioneer Chapel (now Harvest Studio) and cemetery is the site of bi-cultural stories from the time of McLaren Vale’s settlement in 1839. The rich Aboriginal story and early intercultural relationships have largely been overlooked in the colonising narrative for the region. While snippets are known, a focused research and writing project, known as cultural mapping, is required to further research, document and then elucidate.”

Gavin Malone Co-founder CRED: Cultural Research Education Design

Lot 50-Kanyanyapilla: Bi-cultural Ecological and Cultural Regeneration

Self-guided Cemetery Audio Tour telling the story of the settlers of McLaren Vale - COMING SOON.

Cemetery and Garden Curator and custodian Hope Lovelock Deane and her daughters have up to eight generations of connections to this State Heritage site, this corner of the town and the Willunga Basin area, with connections to over 30 settler families. See About

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