Putting love back into the land

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

We have planted a grove of native trees on our festival site to help regenerate the land and to provide sustenance for people and wildlife in years to come. Our Green Gathering Grove includes fruit and nut trees, trees that will be laden with blossom in the Spring, trees that provide shade and shelter, awesome trees. The Grove will enhance local biodiversity and provide a community space for celebration and ceremony.

The trees we plant may be small but 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. And all this has been made possible by generous and passionate Green Gatherers contributing to a crowdfund campaign we ran during covid lockdowns.

In February 2022 we planted an inner circle of small trees - holly, hazel, elder, apple, plum, guelder rose and dogwood. In December 2022 we added a middle ring of larger trees including hawthorn, field maple and alder, followed in the new year by what will become giants around the edge of our Grove – oak, chestnut, lime, Scots pine and other venerable species.