Lindsey Liles

Lindsey Liles joined Garden & Gun in 2020 after completing a master’s in literature in Scotland and a Fulbright grant in Brazil. The Arkansas native is G&G’s digital reporter, covering all aspects of the South, and she especially enjoys putting her biology background to use by writing about wildlife and conservation. She lives on Johns Island, South Carolina.

Fall in Asheville

Travel

All of the places our digital reporter loved during a monthlong stay in the Land of the Sky

A blue land crab

Conservation

The non-native species may be expanding its range into Georgia and the Carolinas, and scientists want the public to report sightings

Inside a red-toned dining room

Food & Drink

From shrimp pasta to tuna conserva pizza, chef Sean McMullen is putting a Lowcountry spin on coastal Italian fare at the rooftop restaurant

A recording studio

Travel

Robert Johnson helped make the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio a music landmark. A new recording space, a 1,000-album vinyl collection, and more plush touches are carrying that legacy forward.

A lodge on the water

Home & Garden

Fowl Play, a waterbound hunting lodge built for chasing fish and ducks across southern Louisiana, is on the market

oak tree

Conservation

Chains that once saved the Witness Tree, an ancient live oak in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, are now choking it. This week, arborists will install a complex new support system to give the tree new life.

A satellite image of a hurricane

Severe Weather

A new forecast says a powerful El Niño could keep storms away

An up-close of an ocelot

Conservation

Ocelots nearly vanished from the United States. Now, scientists are combining decades of research with a pioneering breeding program to restore one of America’s rarest species to the ranchlands of the Lone Star State.

A group of people with city keys

Travel

Fredericksburg, Virginia, and DeLand, Florida, may have competed for the title, but a recent visit revealed just how much these revitalized Southern downtowns have in common

A man drives a boat

Sporting

North Carolina businessman and philanthropist Eddie Smith has always put integrity over profit. He’s done so again in the most dramatic way yet.

A seafood dish

Food & Drink

The beloved restaurant is celebrating fifteen years of seasonally inspired cooking and Lowcountry ingredients, including the customer-favorite seafood pilau

house exterior lawn

Arts & Culture

A collection of personal and professional artifacts—including Sanders’s home and restaurant—are up for auction

Coffee beans in a roaster

Food & Drink

A new study says coffee might be healthy after all—and these companies have you covered on quality beans

A woman stands in a home door with a black lab. She holds flowers

Home & Garden

Step inside a Tennessee priest, sailor, artist, writer, and hostess extraordinaire’s colorful, ever-evolving abode

an ice-filled glass

Drinks

Flavor infusions, a drizzle of syrup, and more ways to level up your ice game.

a baby panther

Land & Conservation

Rescued from the wild after her mother abandoned her, the little cat is recovering at the Naples Zoo—and will become an ambassador for her species

A dinner full of guests

Food & Drink

At Keipi, a millennia-old Georgian dinner tradition turns strangers into friends

An indigo snake

Conservation

Among the longleaf pines of Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest, biologists have spent decades trying to save the inky, elegant, and elusive “emperor of the forest”

A man and woman sit on a porch

Distilled

As a family expands, a shared love of a favorite bottle leads to an unexpected friendship

image of a dolphin calf swimming alongside it's mother

Conservation

The resilient mother-calf duo is winning hearts off the coast of Charleston