As an award-winning event focused on climate and community resilience, taking care of the site where we hold our festival is hugely important to everyone involved with The Green Gathering.

In 2019 and 2021 we undertook necessary work to make safe trees within Piercefield Park which were at risk of dropping limbs and making our festival unsafe.

While the work was carried out in an environmentally sympathetic manner, since then we have felt an increasing urgency to balance this tree surgery with regeneration of the site.

Our Green Gathering Grove will enhance local biodiversity; and it will provide a space for our community to celebrate and to remember with sadness, gratitude and joy people from our festival family who have died.

The trees we plant may be small but in time future generations will be wowed by them, as we are each year by the wondrous Wise Old Oak, grown from a tiny acorn planted in Piercefield Park's past.