March in Berrien County is orchard country waking up — bare rows on the ridges, meltwater standing in the furrows, the smell of turned ground on a warm afternoon. Deep Root Farms LLC works that whole calendar around Niles: mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups once the ground firms up, plowing and salting once it stops cooperating. The fruit-belt weather that makes this land generous also makes it unpredictable, and property care here means being ready either way. There is a plain pride in a field-edge lawn cut straight and a lane cleared down to the gravel. Same ground, same hands, two seasons of it.