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 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”

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