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.
Hotels
The sister property to Hotel Bardo brings retro fun with board games, hip bunk rooms, and a garden-rimmed rooftop pool
Travel
While navigating the backbone of Appalachia, make room in your plans for the unplanned
Food & Drink
Through sloppy jais and Mumbai toasties, crispy okra matchsticks and dal makhani, the Chai Pani chef wants readers to say: “I’m going to learn how to cook Indian food as easily as I make pancakes for breakfast”
Land
Cases are on the rise in the South and beyond. We caught up with a biologist studying it, an allergist treating it, and a couple living with it.
Conservation
Photographer Mac Stone has spent years documenting ancient cypress forests and the hidden life within them. Step inside that secret world and his stunning new compilation.
Travel
All of the places our digital reporter loved during a monthlong stay in the Land of the Sky
Conservation
The non-native species may be expanding its range into Georgia and the Carolinas, and scientists want the public to report sightings
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
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.
Home & Garden
Fowl Play, a waterbound hunting lodge built for chasing fish and ducks across southern Louisiana, is on the market
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 new forecast says a powerful El Niño could keep storms away
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.
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
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.
Food & Drink
The beloved restaurant is celebrating fifteen years of seasonally inspired cooking and Lowcountry ingredients, including the customer-favorite seafood pilau
Arts & Culture
A collection of personal and professional artifacts—including Sanders’s home and restaurant—are up for auction
Food & Drink
A new study says coffee might be healthy after all—and these companies have you covered on quality beans
Home & Garden
Step inside a Tennessee priest, sailor, artist, writer, and hostess extraordinaire’s colorful, ever-evolving abode
Drinks
Flavor infusions, a drizzle of syrup, and more ways to level up your ice game.




















