Culture | Music Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has confirmed that the festival is due for a year off to help the land at Worthy Farm recover. The sprawling Somerset location, which operates as a dairy farm throughout the rest of the year, welcomes hundreds of thousands of festival lovers to its fields each year. First held in 1970, Glastonbury Festival has become one of the UK’s most famous festivals and a rite of passage for many music lovers across the country.
Spreading over 1000 acres and boasting over 62 stages in 2023, Worthy Farm’s natural landscapes tend to be impacted due to the number of revellers. Every few years, the Eavis family holds a “fallow year”, during which they take a break from the festival and give the land a break from visitors. So, when is Glastonbury next happening, and when is the next year off? Glastonbury Festival usually takes a year off every five years.
However, the event was also postponed in 2020 and 2021 during Covid. Speaking to the BBC’s Sidetracked podcast, Ms Eavis suggested that 2026 was likely to be the next fallow year. In the podcast, she explained that fallow years were an important part of the festival cycle and it also encouraged everyone to switch off.
She said: “We are due a fallow year. The fallow year is important because it gives the land a rest, and it gives the cows a chance to stay out for longer and reclaim their land. “I think it’s important, I think it gives everybody time to just switch off and the p.
