Nash Creek runs down out of the farm country and through the middle of Sparta, and the properties along it swing from open pasture frontage to shaded village lots inside of half a mile. Austin's Property Management, LLC keeps them all: mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups through the green months, plowing, walkway clearing and salting through the white ones. Autumn is the hinge — some years the last mowing and the first plow land in the same three weeks. The work is steady rather than showy, which is exactly what a property needs. Sparta Township and the nearby Kent County towns make up the area.