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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, with her husband, Giedrius, and their cat, Oyster.

Lewis the squirrel runs out on the field during the Ole Miss-Oklahoma game.

Arts & Culture

His name is Lewis, and he’s run onto the field at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium the past two home games. The university landscaping crew brings the theories on his end game.

A slice of a thanksgiving hot pocket on a plate

Recipe

Chef Meg Gray of Tujague’s in New Orleans has devised the perfect day-after brunch treat

A large ocean liner

Land & Conservation

The ship has carried the likes of Truman, Eisenhower, Marilyn Monroe…and now will become a refuge for a marine life and a spectacular dive site off the coast of Destin, Florida

A field of Christmas trees at Wishon Evergreens in Sparta, North Carolina.

Land & Conservation

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, farms are still welcoming guests and churning out Fraser firs

An emu in a field

Land & Conservation

“I guess the other one said, ‘Hell yeah, if she can do it, I can do it’”

A pan of mashed potatoes

Recipe

Classic mashed potatoes get the cream cheese and garlic treatment

A plate of chilled oysters

Food & Drink

Should you order by region? By size? Three chefs weigh in on building—and eating—the perfect platter

Inside a pub with red accents and portraits of men

Food & Drink

Charleston restaurateur Brooks Reitz brings an Anglophile’s eye to the Crescent City

Loggerhead Turtles climb out of their nest and race towards the ocean.

Land & Conservation

A blue crab scuttles across the ocean floor. A baby sea turtle faces a wall of predators. Photographer Ian Wilson-Navarro shows Dry Tortugas National Park as it’s never been seen before.

Colorful sculptures of an armadillo, chameleon, and iguana,

Arts & Culture

In the workshop of María and Jacobo Ángeles in Oaxaca, spiritual wood carvings come to vibrant life

Two people in a cave look at a white crawfish underwater

Land & Conservation

In the lab and in underground caverns, biologists are on a mission to conserve the weird, wondrous life of the Ozarks

A portrait of a black alpaca

Arts & Culture

Randal Ford’s new book showcases cheeky llamas, elegant horses, shy chickens, and proud pigs

Two people stand on the stage of Shark Tank

Food & Drink

Though her Charleston-based company, Life Raft Treats, came up short on the reality show, the decorated pastry chef is forging ahead

A pair of hands holds a brook trout

Land & Conservation

The damage is still too great to sample for brook trout, mussels, and salamanders, but biologists weigh in on their hopes, fears, and plans for recovery

Land & Conservation

North Carolina just debuted a Venus flytrap plate—the newest in a long line of important funding sources for the Southern wilds

A tray of stone crab claws

Food & Drink

The moment Hurricane Milton passed, crabbers were out setting traps for the Southern delicacy

A Dalmatian wearing a decorative cone

Books

Photographer Winnie Au teamed up with designer Marie-Yan Morvan to create portraits of canines wearing true works of art 

A woman taking a photo of a python wrapped around her leg

Land & Conservation

Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win

A woman holds a cob of colorful corn in a cornfield

Food & Drink

Long thought lost, ancestral Native American kernels make their way back home to the Lumbee, Waccamaw-Siouan, and Coharie

HURRICANES HELENE AND MILTON

Says one guide: “I don’t have a free second to not be out here helping, neck deep in mold, sand, saltwater, and sweat”