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.
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”
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
hurricane helene
Dogs, cats, horses, and more are in need of resources and evacuation—here’s how to support organizations on the ground
hurricane helene
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, local chefs are doing what they do best
HURRICANE HELENE
See footage of one concerned resident piloting his jon boat down flooded streets to check on his neighbors
Land & Conservation
Breath samples? Check. Body condition data? Check. Technology has taken off—literally
Land & Conservation
No, we couldn’t let her stay in the contest. Yes, we fell for her anyway.
Champions of Conservation
Consider this advocate the Johnny Appleseed of one of the South’s most imperiled trees
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Champions of Conservation
From sun-brightened streams to dark, dank caves, an ichthy-obsessed biologist tenaciously protects the South’s aquatic life
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Champions of Conservation
A blueprint for how private timberland owners can save threatened Southern species comes courtesy of a Mississippi forester
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Land & Conservation
Meet Chia, an endangered Kemp’s ridley who became entangled and injured off the coast of Charleston but just keeps swimming
Arts & Culture
A year after saying goodbye to our favorite island rocker, we dive into the story behind Jimmy Buffett’s most mouthwatering hit




















