Mid-Michigan soil turns dark and forgiving in April, and everything in Larkin Township wants to start growing on the same morning. Rooted Fork Garden works close to that ground — mowing, trimming, cutting a clean edge where lawn meets bed, raking winter's leftovers out of the corners where the wind stashed them. There is a difference between grass that has been cut and a yard that has been tended, and the borders are where it shows. By June the lines hold, the turf thickens, and the beds read as intentional rather than accidental. It is garden thinking applied to a lawn, week after week.