I, too, consider myself an anti-gardener. My long term goal is a good forest. In the meantime while the fruit trees grow I'm not relying too much on production and focusing on soil building, and increasing insects.

I'm not mowing this year, and I left the acorns and leaf litter over the winter. Not sure if it's confirmation bias, but it feels like I have more lightning bugs than last year. I know my yard has enough to support a number of snakes, rabbits and possums; a box turtle; and at night when I go out with my headlamp, it's a sea of wolf spider eyes glaring back at me!