We grow more food than ever, yet many of us feel less nourished. Our fields flood in winter and parch in summer. Farmers work harder every year and keep less of what they earn.

We treat these as separate problems. They are not.

Beneath all three lies the same living system: the soil, and the hidden world of fungi, bacteria and tiny creatures that keeps it alive. When that life thrives, it holds water, feeds plants and, through our food, reaches us. When we break it, the damage travels.

From Soil to Soul follows those connections, from a drop of soil under the microscope to the plate, the landscape and the economy. It asks a simple question with large consequences: what if a farm’s most valuable harvest were not its crop, but its soil? And what if we paid farmers to grow it?

Honest about what we know and what we don’t, and rooted in the Dutch landscape, this is a book about healing land and people, and about the food system we can still choose.