Hedgerow providing more than our allotment

[thecornflake]

Hi, haven't posted on here for ages, we got a private allotment plot recently and the plots are all in a large farm field, half has been ploughed and marked into plots, the other half left so it's mainly long grass and various weeds. The hedgerow all around the field goes up to 20 feet high in places and we normally walk round the field with the kids after a session working on the plot. As we've only recently planted things and most are eother potatoes or green manure we're not currently getting any harvest but we have found the following in the field/hedgerow so far -

Blackberries - as many as we can pick, some up to nearly an inch across!
Cobnut trees
Hawthorn
Possibly either sloes or damsons (have posted in sloe i.d. thread here as the pic was very similar, think they're sloes)
Elder I think
Numerous edible weeds that I'm currently trying to identify
Mushrooms (but obviously very wary of these, need to do some research but I think there are some edible ones)

The site's on a slope, with a stream at the bottom so there's a wide variety from fairly dry ground at the top to quite damp and almost boggy at the bottom.

So it's turned out to be a big bonus, not only are we getting so many blackberries I'm thinking of trying to make wine with them, I'm also getting a good opportunity to learn foraging somewhere safe, with full permission and shielded from the traffic.