fallow

Organisers previously said 2026 would be a fallow year at Worthy Farm to enable the land to recover and the natural environment to regenerate.

Her sanguine — and mischievously macabre — response belies the fact that the fire, coupled with the long years of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused an extended fallow period during which she completely stopped creating art.

A team of volunteers have started the major clean-up of the site to prepare the land for a fallow year in 2026.

The festival is on the cusp of a fallow year - when the fields are given the chance to recover.

It will also be last festival before the 2026 fallow year to let the fields recover.