The first cut of the year in LaGrange Township comes while the Dowagiac Creek bottoms are still soft and the dandelions have taken the yard overnight. J/S Lawn Care LLC starts there — mowing winter's shagginess down to something even, trimming out fencerows and the tight ground around trees, edging walks back to their real shape. Every visit after that holds the rhythm, week by week, with the pavement swept clean each time. Autumn brings the leaf work, hauled off before the first hard freeze pins it all down. Green, level, and clean at the edges is what a yard should look like from the mailbox.