Spring around Geneseo begins in the black soil out past the town limits, where the fields go dark and workable weeks before anyone's lawn has woken up. Yoder Advance Landscaping opens the year the same way — raking winter out of the beds, hauling off whatever the wind piled into corners, and getting that first mow down before the grass gets away. From there it is the weekly cut, the trim work, the edging, and cleanups that carry right through the leaves. Prairie towns keep tidy front yards; there is a reason for the shade trees and the mown squares out here, and it is not only appearance. A well-kept lawn is a small piece of that inheritance.