SOIL: Rewilding the Underground
By Freya Mulvey
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!
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Our podcast artwork is by Mark Chester Harding.
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Latest episode
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Presenting 'Cereal', Episode 1: Flour, water, salt
Bread. 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 our friends at Farmerama Radio that uncovers the polarised world of br… -
BONUS: World Soil Day
In 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. Fill out our short SOIL impact survey -
Part 6: Regenerative futures - rewilding the underground
Humans 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 that support the restoration of degraded soils - like improving soil t… -
Part 5: Food security & shifting systems
We 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 independent butcher and meet farmers and eaters doing things differently.… -
Part 4: Soil, water & climate
We’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 stores carbon and fresh water, how it’s connected to droughts, dust sto… -
Part 3: Fungi, fertiliser & the gut microbiome
Beneath 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 fungal superhighways and the microscopic interactions around the rhizosphe… -
Part 2: Custodians of the soil
Our 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 agriculture, either for growing crops or grazing livestock, meaning farme… -
Part 1: The story of soil
Humans 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 our relationship with soil over millennia to understand how humanity i… -
SOIL: Rewilding the Underground (trailer)
SOIL: Rewilding the Underground is a 6-part documentary about the people turning degraded dirt into living soil. Launching mid-October 2025Follow the journey