The Secret Life of Soil

Discover a hidden ecosystem beneath our feet holding environmental futures in delicate balance. Celebrating National Science Week, this discussion takes you underground where vast, interconnected networks quietly sustain life. Microscopic organisms shape healthy soils, support food systems, and lock away carbon. Threads of fungi and microbes weave intricate relationships between what grows below and what thrives above. In this conversation, host of Life Matters (ABC Radio National) Hilary Harper is joined by Gardening Australia’s Hannah Moloney and Museums Victoria’s Simon Hinkley . Together they explore how modern agriculture has disrupted these systems, and how regenerative practices might help repair them. What emerges is a different way of seeing soil: not just as dirt, but as a living infrastructure that holds environmental futures in balance. Ticket includes entry to Our Wondrous Planet from 8pm–9pm.