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.

A cemetery

Travel

At Atlanta’s 176-year-old Oakland Cemetery, gardens, green space, and storied graves offer a colorful reminder that cemeteries can be as much for the living as for the dead

A setup of whiskey vintage barware

Food & Drink

Live out your cowboy dreams by snagging frontier-era barware and contemporary heirlooms

An artificial reef with fish swimming around it

Conservation

The Florida Coastal Corridor aims to build a network of artificial reefs, seagrass beds, mangroves, and shorelines that will strengthen fisheries—and the communities built around them

A crystal in front of a blue diamond-shaped painting

Arts & Culture

The 27.21-carat stone joins Tiffany & Co. jewels and American art in “Nature Adorned,” on view in Bentonville through March

recess lobby bar

Hotels

The sister property to Hotel Bardo brings retro fun with board games, hip bunk rooms, and a garden-rimmed rooftop pool

A Blue Ridge Parkway view

Travel

While navigating the backbone of Appalachia, make room in your plans for the unplanned

A portrait of Meherwan Irani

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”

A tick

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.

A prothonotary warbler in the swamp.

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.

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

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