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CJ Lotz Diego

CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior 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.

Home & Garden

In a captivating new book, the duo behind the popular Instagram account set the story straight on small Southern towns, shiplap, and why so many fading homes still have stories to tell

Arts & Culture

A Q&A with the author, who this fall resurrects his first big hit in a new thriller

Arts & Culture

We asked a former pilot, thriller writers, and James Lee Burke about the last moments of the F-35 saga in South Carolina that captured us all day

Music

Musicians reflect on the album that blasted out of little Doraville, Georgia, in 1973

Food & Drink

After the toughest season in memory, hope beams at small farm stands, markets, and even at your doorstep

Home & Garden

Make your green space a heaven on earth with these bucolic beauties

Food & Drink

An ode to the salty, cheesy, savory flavors of a West Virginia classic

Food & Drink

How to make Florida’s bright and refreshing pie, topped with homemade whipped cream

Food & Drink

With an Old-Bay-and-butter crust

Food & Drink

In her vibrant new cookbook, Stacey Mei Yan Fong shares fifty pies—including some wildly creative Southern recipes

Books

Spine-tingling page-turners from a longtimer and a rising writer

Travel

Come summer, all roads lead to the mountains

Food & Drink

Celebrating twenty years of Charleston’s FIG restaurant with memories of those crazy early days—and three recipes from the vault

Arts & Culture

The author of Cold Mountain on his writing routine, North Carolina roots, and taking his characters beyond the South

Recipe

The easiest recipe from North Carolina’s Fearrington House Inn

Arts & Culture

Hosting tips—and recipes—from a North Carolinian who has made Italian beauty a lifetime love

Sporting

Historic decoys, dog paintings, a rare folk art find, and more highlights from the online Copley Winter Sale

Home & Garden

We’re crowing about these must-see coops at February’s Antiques & Garden Show

Gardens

On a Georgia island, a greenhouse reflects a lifelong passion

Arts & Culture

And see photos of that time Elvis showed up