Nature and family connections - good combo. Delightful looking village and those steaks look good too 😋 I try to encourage native plants too. I recently cut down some cottonwoods our neighbor has some huge old cottonwoods by her house and they rain down fluff on our land. They were planted by homesteads around here because they grow so fast.
The steaks tasted as good as they looked! ;) Native plants will have to be, although the ideal scenery would be getting the whole village involved in improving the nearby woods. Baby steps, baby steps... ;)