LARDER NOTES

Harvest beckons and hedgerows bloom with blackberries ripe for raiding: stand by for the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

- By Madeleine Silver

SPORTING SUSTENANCE

After a preseason day on the clays with the backdrop of the South Downs at Goodwood, make a beeline for its recently opened Farm, Butcher, Chef restaurant. Beef, pork and lamb reared at Goodwood Home Farm take centre stage with butcher's boards to share, whether it's game pie, lamb shoulder, venison haunch or stuffed pig's trotter. Then there's the pigeon with garlic butter, nettle and date to start, perhaps, and the Home Farm kefir with Goodwood gin and strawberries to round it off. Budding shots can take their pick from the deliciously tempting nursery food on the Young Farmers menu: Home Farm sausage and mash, cottage pie or a beef burger. And when you're revelling in a day of on-target triumphs, order yourself a South Down Sling (rum, banana liqueur, pineapple juice, coconut purée and cinnamon syrup) to celebrate. Visit: goodwood.com