Spaulding Township is black loam and open sky — sugar beets and dry beans running east of Saginaw, the Cass River threading through the low ground. Extreme Landscaping and Lawns LLC works the yards set into all that farmland: mowing, trimming and edging, bed shaping and mulch, shrubs kept in bounds, cleanups at both ends of the year. Ground this rich grows everything at once, weeds included, which makes June a footrace. The satisfaction is in the line — the place where the lawn stops and the field begins, drawn on purpose. From Bridgeport out to Frankenmuth, that line is what the work comes down to.