Poor neighborhoods can be 'fertile soil' for crime. [=there is often a lot of crime in poor neighborhoods]
I had never set foot 'on Japanese/Italian soil' before. [=I had never been to Japan/Italy before]
Cleaning up contaminated 'soil' [=soil that has harmful chemicals in it] can be very costly.
(..) But if you came from the West... ...you passed it. The crows. The creepy place with all the crows. The soil. / We had to get out. We had no water. / And water was filth. It was sour. Then the crows came. We couldn't grow anything. (..)2015 Mad Max: Fury Road