CJ Lotz Diego
CJ Lotz Diego is a Garden & Gun deputy editor. A staffer since 2013, she wrote G&G’s bestselling Bless Your Heart trivia game, edits the Due South travel section, and covers gardens, books, and art. Originally from Eureka, Missouri, she graduated from Indiana University and now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she tends a downtown pocket garden with her florist husband, Max.
Food & Drink
A new book puts tasty spins on the classic Bluegrass State snack
Books
Dozens of books cross Garden & Gun editors’ desks each week. Here are a handful of out-in-January titles that we can’t wait to take home and read
The Southern Agenda
In honor of Old Yeller’s sixtieth anniversary, we asked G&G contributors to share the films that leave them reaching for the tissues
Arts & Culture
With stunning photography, a new book gives an up-close look at some of Georgia’s most majestic residents
Arts & Culture
A look at some of last year’s winners at the annual competition in Asheville, North Carolina.
Arts & Culture
Twenty years ago the film adaptation of John Berendt’s best seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil hit the big screen. Here are the locations in Savannah where the true story—and filming—unfolded.
Travel
Twenty-three of the South’s most picturesque covered bridges
Arts & Culture
Fire, Flour & Fork is a four-day gathering for the food—and drink—curious
Books
This book documents the Crescent City’s surprising role in shaping the entertainment empire
Arts & Culture
Join big names in bourbon in sampling “dusties” at Taste of the Decades
Arts & Culture
An annual gathering highlights the South’s storied spot for conversation
Arts & Culture
Brad Thomas Parsons’s book shows how working cats earn their keep at Southern distilleries and breweries
Hurricane Harvey
Bryan and Jennifer Caswell organize a network of volunteers to feed the flooded city—and they could use your help
Arts & Culture
Baseball mascots are delightfully colorful tributes to their Southern hometowns
Arts & Culture
More than 150 pieces from the collection of Donal C. O’Brien, Jr., cross the auction block for the first time




















