The temporary includes vetches, pulse, lupine, clover and trifolium; and the perennial, meadow-trefoil, lupinella, sulla (fledysarum coronarium), lucerne and darnel.
Lupine, beans, peas and vetches were grown for fodder, and meadows, often artificially watered, supplied hay.
Either let the land lie fallow every other year or else let spelt follow pulse, vetches or lupine.
Indian paintbrush, lupine, fireweed, columbine, all dancing in radiance with occasional hummingbirds cavorting from feast to feast, their red throats sparkling in the sun.
Another lupine connection is the fungus ergot, which is particularly associated with rye.
