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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.

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Travel

Come for the orchids, stay for the electromagnetic cooking at the first net-positive-energy botanical garden in the world

A patrons carries merchandise during a practice round in preparation for the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Augusta, Ga.

Arts & Culture

Those who make it inside Augusta National this year have the goods to prove it

Bradford pear trees in bloom

Land & Conservation

One by one, states are banning the beautiful but invasive tree—and for good reason

A full grown black cat with yellow eyes sticking her pink tongue out.

Arts & Culture

A kitten on a South Carolina back road changed everything I thought about felines

A man stands in a swamp with a camera

Land & Conservation

Through alligators, cypress trees, panthers, spoonbills, and ghost orchids, Mac Stone invites everyone to experience—and care about—what’s in our backyards and beyond

A group of cypress trees in a swamp with a purple sky

Land & Conservation

The Gainesville conservationist captured roaming Florida panthers, rainbows over tree islands, and basking alligators in the name of saving the “river of grass”

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Food & Drink

Suspicious of boiled peanuts? Eat them in a dip. Anti okra slime? Slice them longways and grill them. Put off by raw oysters? Load one on a cracker

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Travel

Be it rugged mountains, desert, or swamp, the diversity of the South is best witnessed off the beaten path

A black and white photo of a little girl in the rain

Arts & Culture

Kate T. Parker’s latest collection of intimate portraits—spanning dancers, activists, soccer players, and classmates—reminds girls everywhere just what they are capable of

A collage of three chefs taste testing biscuits.

Food & Drink

Only one chef guessed them all correctly, but everyone had strong opinions on texture, flavor, and crumb

A close up of a queen conch with long, googly-like eyes

Land & Conservation

What’s not to love? It’s all hands on deck to help these googly-eyed, spiral-shelled, hopping marine snails make a comeback in the Keys

A Florida panther stands in a forest with palm foliage

Land & Conservation

A new grant invites private landowners to help the Sunshine State’s iconic big cat roar back

Four cast iron pans with etchings of butterflies, Dolly Parton's head and signature, and a guitar-shaped pan. They are on a blue, pink, and yellow butterfly-patterned background

Food & Drink

The next best thing to eating a cake with Dolly is eating one in the shape of her guitar

Spectacular, sprawling live oak tree outside Louisiana's Old State Capitol Building in Baton Rouge, which dates to 1852 and served as the seat of state government for 80 years. Designed by architect James Dakin, it now serves as a museum. Rather than mimic the national Capitol Building in Washington, as many other states had done, Dakin conceived a Neo-Gothic medieval-style castle overlooking the Mississippi. Fire destroyed most of the building during the U.S. Civil War of the 1850s. In 1882, it was rebuilt from scratch by architect William Freret, who installed the spiral staircase and stained-glass dome that are interior focal points.

Land & Conservation

A Lowcountry master arborist says yes—and shares how to help an aging tree’s chances

A bright cookbook with Carribean dishes

Food & Drink

In her new cookbook, food writer Von Diaz stews, marinates, fries, steams, pickles, and roasts her way across St. Croix, Guam, Haiti, Curaçao, and her own home island of Puerto Rico

A girl with an orange hunting hat and camo raises a hand in the air; she has a gun under her arm

Sporting

Photographer answers her own question—‘Why can’t I picture more women hunting?’—with a new exhibition

An expansive dining room with a painted burgundy interior, wood floors, velvet grey booths, and tiled sides.

Travel

The colonial seaport town gets a hotel and restaurant combo full of sweet homages to the community

A man in a cooking apron stands in a kitchen and smiles

Food & Drink

The Asheville chef is up for an Outstanding Restaurant James Beard award and coming out with his first cookbook. We caught up with him on thoughtful cooking, foraging, and Benton’s ham

A portrait of a man wearing a black shirt.

Arts & Culture

Deep-sea explorer Tony Romeo made waves last month when the South Carolina resident shared a sonar image of what resembles a sunken plane. Not everyone is convinced it’s Earhart’s, but he’s got a strong case—and plans to make it stronger

A man wearing camo and a hat holds a monarch butterfly gently in his mouth

Conservation

Biologist Billy McCord has spent years tagging monarchs, and his research challenges what we thought we knew about the iconic species