Why import blueberry when its Irish cousin is free?

THIS may be a foolish question, but it’s been prompted by a recent visit to the supermarket looking for blueberries and finding they had sold out.

Why import blueberry when its Irish cousin is free?

Why do we have to import blueberries, now recognised as a fruit with many health benefits, when the blueberries’ cousin, the bilberry, grows wild in parts of the south-west, particularly in the acidic soil of boggy land.

As a child, I often spent part of the summer with my aunt in Co Kerry and I remember eating the “fraocain” that grew along country roadsides.

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