As festival goers begin to descend on Worthy Farm for 2025, this year’s Glastonbury takes on a particular poignancy and hype, because yes, there is no Glastonbury 2026.

This is because 2026 will be a “fallow year”, which means that the festival takes a break for a year in order to let the natural environment recover and regenerate to prevent long-term damage. The concept actually originates from agricultural practices, where farmers leave land unplanted in order to improve soil quality and replenish nutrients for cattle grazing.

When it’s not hosting Glastonbury, Worthy Farm is actually a working dairy farm, with its 900 acres a home to herds of cows.

Glastonbury’s co-organiser Emily Eavis confirmed to the BBC that the farm was “due a fallow year”.

“Sustainability and the need to live in harmony with the land have always been vital to Glastonbury Festival,” she said, adding that it also serves as a well-needed break for the rest of us too. “And I think it’s important because it just gives everybody a little time to just switch off… The fallow year is important because it gives the land a rest, it gives the cows a chance to be out for longer and reclaim their land.”

The fallow year is a key part of taking care of the site, as is the rather green initiatives that take place across the festival, including the banning of single-use plastic plates, cups, mugs and cutlery, as well as glass bottles, flares and Chinese lanterns.

Co-organiser Michael Eavis explains: “We are striving to leave as little an imprint on the land here as we possibly can. For me, Worthy Farm is what life here is all about.”

On Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw‘s podcast Sidetracked, Emily confirmed that the fallow year will see 30,000 trees planted on the farm. “It’s the kind of thing you want to do… plant trees, plant hedges,” she said. “Just really restore the wild side of the farm and the surrounding land.”

So after this year’s Glastonbury, there won’t be another festival on Worthy Farm until 2027. Emily has said before that this makes the 2026 festival even more exciting. “The festival before a fallow year is always a fun one to plan because you almost have to fit two years in one,” she told Glastonbury Free Press.

No news or updates have dropped yet for the Glastonbury 2027 event, and we’re expecting tickets and lineup details to be revealed at a later date.

Who are the Glastonbury 2025 headliners?

Headliners for this year’s festival include Neil Young, Olivia Rodrigo and The 1975. Additionally, Loyle Carner will headline The Other Stage on Friday, with Charli XCX performing on Saturday night and The Prodigy making a big return to headline on Sunday.