These burrowing brown scavengers are nature's most efficient composters. You won't find them in very clay or sandy soils, but enrich it with compost and top it with mulch to keep it moist, and they will come. Then they'll proceed to create the kind of well-aerated, humus-rich soil gardeners call "black gold."
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