Near Stouffville

[vaneramos]

After visiting koobear's café at Stouffville Market yesterday afternoon, I drove through Uxbridge en route to Lindsay to drop off Marian and pick up Brenna, just back from summer camp. The drive reminded me of long summer days growing up in the country, although this farmland is much more rolling than where I grew up.







Vicia cracca
The gravel road of my youth was bordered with purple vetch.

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I find only few and brief references to vetch in my books on the uses of wild plants, except that the fava bean is also a Vicia species. Vetch could also be used as a forage crop like its relative, alfalfa, because nearly all legumes have nodules in their roots that enrich the soil with nitrogen. It doesn't seem to have much notoriety for medicinal or other properties.