SOIL: Rewilding the Underground
by Freya Mulvey
Presenting 'Cereal', Episode 1: Flour, water, salt
About this podcast
SOIL: Rewilding the Underground is an independent six-part documentary told by the farmers, First Nations custodians, scientists and communities who are turning dirt degraded back into living soil and safeguarding our planetary future. It is a journey into the upper layer of the Earth, the source of our food, home to the most biodiverse ecosystem on our planet, and a crucial part of the carbon cycle that regulates our climate, and the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere. If you've listened, please leave us a testimonial!
Join the movement to restore & protect soils - follow us on socials @soilpodcast and learn more at thesoilpodcast.com.
Our podcast artwork is by Mark Chester Harding.
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Episodes
- Presenting 'Cereal', Episode 1: Flour, water, salt · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 8Bread. How did something so basic, so fundamental, get so complicated – and even start making us ill? This is the question that underpins ‘Cereal’, an investigative series from…
- BONUS: World Soil Day · 3 min · Season 1 Episode 7In honour of World Soil Day, we're sharing 5 things you can do to help soils: • Talk about soils! Rate, review & share this podcast to help this story reach more listeners. •…
- Part 6: Regenerative futures - rewilding the underground · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 6Humans can’t create soils on our own, but we can create the conditions for life underground to flourish. In our final episode, we look at existing mechanisms to scale practices…
- Part 5: Food security & shifting systems · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 5We cannot survive without the intricate network of life in soils that underlies 95% of the food humans consume. In this episode, we trace global food supply chains, visit an…
- Part 4: Soil, water & climate · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 4We’ve already started to feel the brunt of anthropogenic climate change, and our relationship with soil may be crucial to our way through. In this episode, we’ll hear how soil…
- Part 3: Fungi, fertiliser & the gut microbiome · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 3Beneath our feet lies a hidden world of fungi, bacteria, animals and plant roots that has been explored less than outer space. In Part 3, we’re going underground to explore…
- Part 2: Custodians of the soil · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 2Our imagination has been captured by stories of rewilding ecosystems… What if we told you that farmers can rewild soils? About half of the world's habitable land is used for…
- Part 1: The story of soil · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 1Humans have always been intertwined with the soil, but we have degraded over a third of Earth’s soils and now it’s impacting us all on an existential level. In Part 1, we trace…
- SOIL: Rewilding the Underground (trailer) · 3 min · Season 1SOIL: Rewilding the Underground is a 6-part documentary about the people turning degraded dirt into living soil. Launching mid-October 2025 Follow the journey @soilpodcast and…
