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Valley Fest × Conscious Planet

Save the soil beneath our feet.

More than half of the world’s agricultural soil is already degraded, and scientists put what is left at forty to fifty harvests. Conscious Planet’s Save Soil movement exists to change that — and there are few better places to make the case than a festival held on a 22-acre organic farm.

Save Soil at Valley FestThe movement
A global movement to save the soilOn a working organic farm3–6% organic content
>50%of farmland soil degraded
40–50harvests left, say scientists
3–6%organic content the movement asks for
193nations asked to act
30,000kmridden to launch it
22organic acres at Valley Fest
The story

A movement that started
in Trafalgar Square

Conscious Planet is the movement behind Save Soil, launched by the Indian yogi and founder of the Isha Foundation, Sadhguru. On 20 March 2022 he rode out of Trafalgar Square on a motorbike and kept going — 30,000 kilometres through 26 countries, from London to Coimbatore in India, with a stop at the UN desertification summit on the way — to put one idea in front of the world: soil is alive, it is dying, and the people who vote can save it.

Conscious Planet — a global movement to save the soil beneath our feetSoil is alive
The problem

Soil stores three times the carbon of every living plant

Soil is not dirt. A healthy handful holds more living organisms than there are people on Earth, feeds the plants that feed us and locks away roughly three times as much carbon as all the vegetation on the planet. Strip the organic matter out of it — by chemical farming, over-tilling and bare fields — and it turns to dust.

  • Over half of the world’s agricultural soils are already degraded
  • UN agencies estimate 40–50 years of productive soil left at current rates
  • Degraded soil means less food, less water retention and more carbon in the air
Valley Fest on the farm above Chew Valley LakePolicy, not just planting
The ask

A minimum of 3–6% organic content, written into law

Save Soil asks the governments of 193 nations for one measurable thing: policy that keeps agricultural soil at a minimum of three to six per cent organic content. The movement aims to bring 3.5 billion people — sixty per cent of the world’s voters — behind that ask, so that it becomes an election issue rather than a good intention.

  • One clear, measurable policy ask
  • Supported by UN agencies and soil scientists worldwide
  • “Everybody knows the problem. Everybody generally knows what is the solution.” — Sadhguru
A long-table feast in the fields at Valley FestThe field is the argument
Why Valley Fest

A festival that grew out of the soil

Valley Fest began as a harvest party on Luke Hasell’s organic farm and still runs on The Community Farm, a community-owned organic market garden on the shores of Chew Valley Lake. The food in the long-table feasts is grown in the soil the festival stands on. If there is a crowd that will understand Save Soil in their boots, it is this one.

  • 22 acres of certified organic land, farmed regeneratively
  • Food grown yards from where it is eaten
  • Zero disposable plastic on site
Soil is the basis of all life. If we lose it, nothing else we argue about will matter. Valley Fest · Save Soil at the farm
Together at Valley Fest

Save Soil
on the farm

Three things we are working on with Conscious Planet for Valley Fest 2027 — on the land, in the programme and with the people who come.

The soil walkOn the farm

Hands in the ground

What
Guided walks across The Community Farm with the growers: what living soil looks like, smells like and holds, against a field farmed the conventional way.
Who
The Community Farm team with Save Soil volunteers.
Why it works
You cannot un-see a handful of healthy soil next to a handful of dust.
Farm walksFamily-friendlyHands-on
Talks & filmProgramme

The case for soil, between the sets

What
Save Soil in the talks programme — the science, the policy ask and the motorbike journey that launched it — with the Save Soil documentary screened on site.
Where
The wellness garden and the talks space, in the quiet hours of the day.
Why it works
A festival audience has time. Four days of it.
Talks programmeDocumentaryWellness garden
Sign the askAction

3.5 billion voices, a few thousand at a time

What
A place on site to join the movement and add your voice to the Save Soil policy ask, and the same link in every Valley Fest newsletter.
With
Conscious Planet’s UK volunteers.
Why it works
Ten thousand people who already care where their food comes from, asked at the right moment.
Pledge wallNewsletter55k+ reach
Get involved

Three ways in

Join the movement

Add your voice at consciousplanet.org — it takes a minute and it is the whole point.

Come to the farm

Weekend tickets include the farm walks, the talks and the feasts grown in the soil you will be standing on.

Partner with us

Impact partnerships at Valley Fest back a named project — regenerative growing is one of them — and tell the story all year.

29 July – 1 August 2027 · Chew Valley Lake

Stand on living soil.
Then help keep it that way.

Four days on an organic farm, with the people trying to save the ground it stands on. Tickets for Valley Fest 2027 are on sale now.

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