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 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”

A brown pelican in flight

Land & Conservation

The release of two rehabilitated brown pelicans is the result of millions of years of evolution, cosmic coincidence, and the hard work of conservation-minded South Carolinians

People unload animal crates from a place

hurricane helene

Dogs, cats, horses, and more are in need of resources and evacuation—here’s how to support organizations on the ground

Men stir a big pot under a tent

hurricane helene

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, local chefs are doing what they do best

A person in a boat in a flooded neighborhood

HURRICANE HELENE

See footage of one concerned resident piloting his jon boat down flooded streets to check on his neighbors

Dolphins approaching a platform while a drone flies over them.

Land & Conservation

Breath samples? Check. Body condition data? Check. Technology has taken off—literally

A raccoon sitting on a cat scratching post.

Land & Conservation

No, we couldn’t let her stay in the contest. Yes, we fell for her anyway.

A woman stands in a greenhouse

Champions of Conservation

Consider this advocate the Johnny Appleseed of one of the South’s most imperiled trees

A man stands in a cave

Champions of Conservation

From sun-brightened streams to dark, dank caves, an ichthy-obsessed biologist tenaciously protects the South’s aquatic life

A man holds a salamander

Champions of Conservation

A blueprint for how private timberland owners can save threatened Southern species comes courtesy of a Mississippi forester

Land & Conservation

Meet Chia, an endangered Kemp’s ridley who became entangled and injured off the coast of Charleston but just keeps swimming

A man holding a cheeseburger

Arts & Culture

A year after saying goodbye to our favorite island rocker, we dive into the story behind Jimmy Buffett’s most mouthwatering hit

An ibis mascot

Arts & Culture

The gangly, feathery representative of the University of Miami offers a dose of meteorological folklore

A large white country mansion

Home & Garden

A new book from architect and designer Cathy Purple Cherry opens the door to an Eastern Shore showstopper, complete with a hidden wine vault, an entertaining barn, a hunting room, and more

A panther with kittens

Land & Conservation

Cattle ranchers are joining forces with conservation groups to support the big cat’s comeback

A man holds a guitar

Music

The bluegrass guitarist, vocalist, and avid fly fisherman celebrates home, family, and his musical influences on Far Away with You