March out toward Free Soil is all thaw and mud and light — brush piles steaming, the woods deciding whether they mean it yet. New Life Land Management LLC works that ground: clearing brush and overgrowth, mowing and trimming once the season turns, edging, and hauling off whatever the cleanup turns up. In winter the same equipment goes to plowing drives and lots, opening walks, and salting the corners where shade keeps ice long past noon. There is a plain satisfaction in a piece of property that was a tangle in April and open, mowed ground by June. Land and property care for Ludington, Free Soil, Fountain, Scottville and the country around them.