08/21/2026
Snow Hill is having the Board approve a human composting project.
Seattle company to purchase Snow Hill site for soil distribution.
Worcester County has approved a first-of-its-kind human composting project near Snow Hill, but not without some unease from neighbors living alongside the property where the unique soil would go.
The county’s Board of Zoning Appeals voted 4–2 at its Aug. 13 meeting to grant a special exception that allows soil made from human remains to be applied to the agricultural property as a soil amendment.
The decision clears the way for the company Earth Funeral to use the soil to gradually convert the 15 acres of farmland into a forest, at a rate of about one to two acres per year.
Attorney Hugh Cropper represented both Earth Funeral, which is based in Seattle, and the current property owners, whose contract to sell the land was contingent on zoning approval. A sale price was not disclosed.
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(Aug. 21, 2026) Worcester County has approved a first-of-its-kind human composting project near Snow Hill, but not without some unease from neighbors living alongside the property where the unique soil