The Anthropos Woodland is the land the festival is built on. Not a venue hired for five days and left behind, but a woodland garden the Collective stewards year-round. Everything the festival does happens here.
The site is a mix of mature woodland, open meadow and cultivated garden. It sits on the edge of Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire. We share it with the wildlife that lives there: deer, owls, foxes, pollinators and a slow-moving stream. Part of our care for the land is being guests, not occupiers, of the other species who call it home.
For every ticket sold, we plant a tree. The planting happens outside festival weeks, by crew and volunteers, across the site and in partner land nearby. The woodland is denser every edition because of every ticket sold since the first edition.
Between editions the Collective returns to the land regularly. Permaculture work, deadwood clearing, pathway repair, hedge planting, wildflower seeding. The woodland is not passive. It is a piece of work in progress that the festival is part of, not the whole of.
Leave no trace is not a slogan here; it is a shared practice. We aim for the woodland to be indistinguishable from how we found it, within a week of gates closing. Every attendee is part of that practice. Take what you brought in, clean as you go, and walk the paths gently.