SOIL: Rewilding the Underground

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 serie

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 listener

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 pra

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

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

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 explo

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

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

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 2025 Follow the journey @soilpodca