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.
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.
Recipe
Chef Meg Gray of Tujague’s in New Orleans has devised the perfect day-after brunch treat
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
Land & Conservation
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, farms are still welcoming guests and churning out Fraser firs
Land & Conservation
“I guess the other one said, ‘Hell yeah, if she can do it, I can do it’”
Recipe
Classic mashed potatoes get the cream cheese and garlic treatment
Food & Drink
Should you order by region? By size? Three chefs weigh in on building—and eating—the perfect platter
Food & Drink
Charleston restaurateur Brooks Reitz brings an Anglophile’s eye to the Crescent City
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.
Arts & Culture
In the workshop of María and Jacobo Ángeles in Oaxaca, spiritual wood carvings come to vibrant life
Land & Conservation
In the lab and in underground caverns, biologists are on a mission to conserve the weird, wondrous life of the Ozarks
Arts & Culture
Randal Ford’s new book showcases cheeky llamas, elegant horses, shy chickens, and proud pigs
Food & Drink
Though her Charleston-based company, Life Raft Treats, came up short on the reality show, the decorated pastry chef is forging ahead
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
Food & Drink
The moment Hurricane Milton passed, crabbers were out setting traps for the Southern delicacy
Books
Photographer Winnie Au teamed up with designer Marie-Yan Morvan to create portraits of canines wearing true works of art
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
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”