Glastonbury Festival, 22-26 June
Glastonbury is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts featuring contemporary music, dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. It is the largest greenfield festival in the world, and is now attended by around 175,000 people, requiring extensive infrastructure in terms of security, transport, water, and electricity supply. The majority of staff are volunteers, helping the festival to raise millions of pounds for good causes.
Inspired by the ethos of the hippie, counterculture, and free festival movements, the festival retains vestiges of these traditions, such as the Green Fields area, which includes sections known as the Green Futures and Healing Fields.
Grow Wild, the UK’s biggest wild flower campaign, brings people together to transform local spaces with native, pollinator-friendly wild flowers and plants. At this year’s festival, Grow Wild has designed the colourful living archway that leads into the Greenpeace Field. This is packed with native wild flowers including red campion, oxeye daisy, yellow rattle and many more.