Family plots
Sixteen square metres of living legacy.
A plot at Engelendahl is not a grave site. It is a private piece of a growing memorial forest that belongs to your family's story.
Private and exclusive
Each four-by-four-metre plot is reserved for one family, marked discreetly and located among the trees — never in rows, never numbered like a car park.
Room for the whole family
A plot welcomes the ashes of further family members over time, each with their own ceremony. Generations can return to the same ground.
Ten to fifteen indigenous trees
Planted at the ceremony and tended as they establish. Over the years the plot closes its canopy and becomes true forest.
A digital memorial
Every plot carries a discreet marker. Visitors find the exact place by phone and open a living memorial page for the people returned there.
Tended in perpetuity
A dedicated care trust maintains the forest — watering, replacing, protecting — for generations. The forest's care does not depend on anyone's memory.
Part of something larger
Your plot sits inside a genuine reforestation project. Choosing Engelendahl plants real forest on the edge of the Knysna forest — not a lawn with plaques.
Plots are arranged through Ever After, our sister funeral brand — one gentle conversation covers the ceremony, the plot and everything in between.
Arrange through Ever After ↗Pricing
One plot. One price. Everything included.
R45 000once-off
R45 000, once-off. There are no annual fees, no levies, and nothing added on the day.
Your plot includes:
- A 16 m² family plot — a legacy space your family can attend for generations
- Your right of use, secured by a registered servitude on the title deed — conveyancing and registration included
- Indigenous trees, planted and established on your plot
- The interment ceremony, shaped by your family and led by whomever you choose
- A natural engraved marker and the precise location of your plot, recorded and shared with your family
- A living memorial page for your family — photographs, stories, and the forest as it grows
- Perpetual care of the forest, funded through the registered care trust — forever, at no further cost
See it for yourself
This is what your family holds.
Words don't quite carry it, so here is a living memorial page itself — the one a visitor opens when they scan the marker at a plot.
This is a demonstration; the Van der Merwes are a fictional family. Scroll it, read the tributes, even leave one of your own — you'll see how everything a visitor offers goes to the family first.
Open the living memorial in full ↗Begin
Every forest starts with a conversation.
Whether it's an immediate need, planning ahead, or simply a wish to walk the forest first — everything is arranged through Ever After, our sister funeral brand. One gentle conversation covers the visit, the ceremony, the plot and everything in between.
Begin with Ever After ↗Call, WhatsApp or write — whichever feels easiest. There is no form to fill in first.