T. Edward Nickens
T. Edward Nickens is a contributing editor for Garden & Gun and cohost of The Wild South podcast. He’s also an editor at large for Field & Stream and a contributing editor for Ducks Unlimited. He splits time between Raleigh and Morehead City, North Carolina, with one wife, two dogs, a part-time cat, eleven fly rods, three canoes, two powerboats, and an indeterminate number of duck and goose decoys. Follow @enickens on Instagram.
Made in the South Awards 2017
The Outdoors category winner is a portable fire pit-grill combo that can go from football games to backyard barbecues
Sporting Life
The world-famous angler, archer, TV personality, woodsman, and sage has always lived life by one rule—follow your heart
Conservation
An unprecedented coalition forges a plan to save one of the most crucial animals in the longleaf pine ecosystem
Made in the South Awards
A Tar Heel outdoorsman makes decoys the old way, preserving a proud water-fowling tradition
Sporting
Once the heart of Carolina rice country and the stomping ground of Archibald Rutledge, the tidal marshes of the Santee Delta constitute a natural treasure. Today, a handful of passionate duck hunters are helping to make sure it all stays that way.
Sporting Scene
A shotgun phenom sets his sights on an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic gold
Sporting
There’s no finer quail country than the Red Hills, 300,000 acres of longleaf and wiregrass and home to more than a hundred sprawling plantations. Who’d have thought a real estate broker would become its unofficial steward?
Arts & Culture
Every April in Tidewater Virginia, politicians and ordinary folks gather to celebrate spring, smoked shad, and the age-old practice of civic discourse. Welcome to the Wakefield Shad Planking
Sporting Scene
How a North Carolina plantation turned back the clock on bobwhite habitat
Lodges
Ten years after Katrina swept it out to sea, a Louisiana outpost is back and better than ever
Travel
Lloyd Davidson has always been prone to wanderlust and wild ideas, but even those who know the Tennessee native could never have predicted he’d be the best hope to save the scarlet macaw
Collections
Preston Gough’s collection of pedigreed knives is a study in Southern craftsmanship
Good Dogs
Deep in the North Carolina Piedmont, one man has made sure that the storied tradition of taking to the field with a pack of beagles in mad pursuit of rabbits lives on
Made in the South Awards
A North Carolina denim outfit specializes in expert craftsmanship and exceptional fit
Sporting South
A top-notch guide can turn a bad day into a good one and a good day into an unforgettable experience. Hedge your bets with any of these eleven standouts
Made in the South Awards
Meg Callahan’s eye-catching quilts combine traditional techniques with modern designs
Made in the South Awards
Dixon Dedman is resurrecting his family’s distillery one easy-sipping bottle of bourbon at a time
Made in the South Awards
A longtime hunter takes inspiration from the duck blind to craft next-level caramels