Pretty sure I didn't, but the local example pales next to
wikipedia.org:Ferdinand_Cheval's Le Palais idéal (the "Ideal Palace") in Hauterives, France
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For the next thirty-three years, Cheval picked up stones during his daily mail round and carried them home to build the Palais idéal.[1] He spent the first twenty years building the outer walls. At first, he carried the stones in his pockets, then switched to a basket. Eventually, he used a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp.[1][2]
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This home had a stone wall 3ft high and 100ft long wrapped around the foundation. It was all from a local quarry, hauled with a pickup truck. Laid by my mother and her grandson.
For vegetation, consider native plants. And
rhubarb.
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In temperate climates, rhubarb is one of the first food plants harvested, usually in mid- to late spring (April or May in the Northern Hemisphere, October or November in the Southern Hemisphere), and the season for field-grown plants lasts until the end of summer. In the northwestern US states of Oregon and Washington, there are typically two harvests, from late April to May and from late June into July;[7] half of all US production is in Pierce County, Washington.[8] Rhubarb is ready to consume as soon as harvested, and freshly cut stalks are firm and glossy.
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