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Festival-goers must make the most of Glastonbury 2025 as next year Worthy Farm will fall silent.

While this year’s event, now under way, looks set to be memorable one with a heatwave incoming and Olivia Rodrigo, Neil Young and The 1975 headlining, there are no plans to hold it in 2026.

Glastonbury Festival is taking a break next year to give oganisers the Eavis family and their farm a year of rest and recovery.

It is not the first time the family, who started the festival in 1970, have decided to pause proceedings.

Glastonbury Festival has a hiatus roughly every fifth or sixth year, for what is known as a fallow year. This is when the Somerset farm’s more than 1,000 acres of land is used only for its original purpose – farming.

Worthy Farm is first and foremost a dairy farm, in use as such for 150 years. Milk from its 1000-strong herd is used to produce Worthy Farm cheddar.

Cows in front of the main Pyramid stage at Glastonbury (Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty)

Last year, Emily Eavis, daughter of founder Sir Michael Eavis, told the BBC’s Sidetracked podcast, featuring presenters Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw: “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.

“And I think it’s quite good not to be seen to be cashing in.”

Worthy Farm Cheese created using milk from the dairy herd at Glastonbury (Photo: Jim Dyson/Getty)

She added: “A fallow year is a really good idea. 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.”

The first official fallow year was in 1988 and they have since been held fairly regularly, most recently in 2012 and 2018.

There was also no festival in 2020 or 2021 due to the Covid pandemic.

How is Worthy Farm repaired during fallow years?

The fallow year is a chance for the organisers to take a break and focus on looking after the farm business and land.

During the Sidetracked podcast, Ms Eavis said planting thousands more trees on the site will be a priority during the fallow year. Up to 30,000 are planned to maintain the site’s biodiversity.

She said: “It’s the kind of thing you want to do… plant trees, plant hedges. Just really restore the wild side of the farm and the surrounding land.”

The hiatus also means the grass has a chance to recover from the annual hordes who make their pilgrimage to Pilton, and the animals have a chance to reclaim the land.

Repair work goes ahead in the fallow year, as does administrative tasks such as renewing contracts.

And for the Eavis family it is an opportunity to step off the festival merry-go-round, all the more important this year as Sir Michael marks his 90th birthday in October.

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When will Glastonbury 2027 tickets go on sale?

Glastonbury Festival is usually held on the last weekend in June, with tickets going on sale in the previous autumn. For the 2025 festival, tickets went on sale in mid-November 2024.

There has been no announcement yet about 2027 tickets, but if it follows the usual pattern then festival fans should expect to be ready to purchase in November 2026.

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