This Way to a Healthy Diet

Berries are in the news and it seems that the most valuable health giving properties are to be found in berries with a blue or purple colour. The greatest level of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants is to be found in our garden blackcurrant. See today’s report in the Daily Telegraph. The blackcurrants on my two bushes are not yet ripe and the freezer supply from last year is used up.

But Blacka Moor to the rescue again. There are many bilberries already ripe and edible. Our native bilberry is a near relative of the American blueberry so beloved of the privileged celebrity class who pay astronomical sums to consume a regular diet of the fruit under the impression that it will confer amazing health benefits. I would wager a lot of money that the completely free bilberries on Blacka Moor will do just as well if not better.


All you need is a container and some patience and hope that the bl***y cows haven’t scoffed the lot. Really I do wonder why the human race goes to such lengths to feed the best foods to cattle, when we could eat it all ourselves saving so much energy and costs and damage to the environment. And we would be fitter for the exercise in harvesting it.

Stay tuned for my bilberry exposion recipe, coming shortly!