As part of our transformations toward deep transparency, we’re aiming to reduce the imprint our actions have on our mother, our home, and our environment. Bringing the Medicine prayer through to the Festival itself has real world impacts across five key areas:
POWER
So far, we’ve reduced harmful emissions from our energy generators by 90% having switched to powering them from vegetable oil. The next step would be very big batteries, which are still in short supply in the UK – so watch this space as we learn and grow with the possibilities available.
We’ve also designed our gathering around reducing, reusing and refusing new builds by creating rustic, enduring stages and intimate fires, with led light walkways and campsites to keep power usage low and low-carbon.
FOOD
At this time on Earth, we all must walk the talk, and put it on our plates too – which is why we only serve delicious plant-based food. Over three quarters of land on mother earth is used for rearing or feeding livestock, and she’s telling us this is too much. So we’ve made the choice to source as much locally grown produce – to support as much natural, seasonal, regenerative practices as possible.
We’re always learning, we’re always growing.
WASTE & MATERIALS
We’ve worked hard with the support of amazing crew and volunteers to recycle and recover between 23-40% of our waste – recycling and composting all we possibly can.
We’re aiming to reach 40-50% recycling consistently by streamlining our approaches with the lessons we’ve learned. We are also investigating on-site composting to boost growing projects on the Estate to devise a more local, land-loving solution for our plant-based food waste which is full of possibilities.
WATER
Honouring the gift of water is imperative, so we collect all our waste water and send it off the land for careful treatment. We’re careful to conserve water with all possible systems on our potable water, alongside restricted shower times which has helped us save thousands of litres of water over the years.
TRANSPORTATION
One of the biggest challenges for festivals is helping people arrive on shared, public transport – especially when the solutions themselves aren’t yet ubiquitous across society, particularly with regard to our rural setting.
But we work with partners to bring as many people as possible on coaches, organise shuttles from local train stations to encourage rail travel and support much crew shared travel too.
In 2026, Medicine will deepen its commitment to measuring these areas with greater accuracy and care, developing robust quantitative data that can serve as clear benchmarks for year-on-year improvement. We are working closely with our contractors, alongside a dedicated sustainability specialist, to ensure our practices continue to evolve and that Medicine becomes as low-impact as possible. This commitment is already taking practical form, with initiatives such as the introduction of solar-powered stages in 2026, marking an important step in reducing our environmental footprint.