Glastonbury’s head organiser Emily Eavis has revealed that Worthy Farm won’t be totally resting in 2026, despite the fallow year.
The 2025 festival is just over a week away from kicking off, with excitement building around the stellar lineup (featuring everyone from Charli XCX to Busta Rhymes).
The 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo are this year’s headliners with the iconic Sir Rod Stewart in the Sunday Legend slot.
Glastonbury has had an amazing string of festivals since reopening in 2022 after Covid paused the previous two years.
However, next year it will be time take another break and allow the land to breathe – but Emily, 45, won’t be stopping completely.
‘We’re actually planting 30,000 trees next year on our fallow year, I’m really excited about it,’ she confirmed to Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac on their podcast Sidetracked.
Glastonbury has always had a huge eco-friendly push, encouraging reusable items and gig-goers to take responsibility for their waste.
Don’t worry, there won’t suddenly be 30,000 trees around the Pyramid Stage, though – especially after overcrowding fears.
The festival was branded a ‘ticking time-bomb’ by a former executive as the possibility of a crowd crush was heavily speculated for certain performers.
The 2025 map showed an increase in space around certain stages as well as Emily confirming they sold ‘a few thousand’ less tickets this year.
Worthy Farm’s ‘big planting project’ will see newly purchased land outside of the current site transformed into a mini forest for generations to come.
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Emily, who is the daughter of founder Sir Michael Eavis explained: ‘It’s the kind of thing you want to do on a fallow year, plant trees, plant hedges.
‘Just really restore the wild side of the farm and the surrounding land.’
Later in the podcast, she confirmed that there are other organisational things that must be done during the fallow year, such as renewing contracts and fixing fences.
However, Emily plans to take some time to herself and her family to celebrate Sir Michael’s 90th birthday in October.
‘A fallow year is a really good idea,’ she said. ‘You drop off, you have a break and it sort of reminds everyone that it’s a farm and a family. We’re just normal and need a break.
‘I am looking forward to going to a sports day, for example, without being really stressed. It’ll be really nice, I’ll be present.’
‘We’re benefitting from a fallow year, it’s my dad’s 90th, we want to make this festival a big birthday celebration.’
Sir Michael is known to take the stage himself for the odd impromptu performance as well as being spotted around the site across the weekend.
Emily has taken over opening duty and is seen at the gates on the Wednesday (which lands on June 25 this year), celebrating as the first visitors flock in.
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