Florida

The Panhandle’s take on an age-old recipe

With its year-round temperate waters and seashells (and sea glass) galore, this laid-back isle is a beach lover’s dream 

Amelia Island is the demands-free destination you’ve been looking for in Florida

We asked three Southern chefs: If you were frying chicken on a desert island, which skillet would you want?

Crystal-clear waters provide a welcome respite from the blazing sun

The task of attaching a tracking collar to a hundred-plus-pound carnivore involves hounds, portable cushions, and sometimes one brave tree climber

Ornithologist and eBird co-founder John Fitzpatrick has created a blueprint for how a development can be mutually beneficial to people and wildlife

Florida Keys crustaceans offer a window into how to restore reefs struggling with heating waters

How a veterinarian with a green thumb turned a junkyard into a palm paradise

Owned by Rollins College, the property added a high-end spa, café, guest rooms—and plenty of wall space for its renowned contemporary art collection

The group of painters created a landscape of opportunity for Black artists

An art director for a Miami real estate heavyweight advocates for creativity on a huge scale

“Once you get a couple of these things, you start appreciating the history and the beauty and the engineering”

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

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

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

A century after it exploded on the scene in Florida, the game with “biscuits” is making a comeback

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

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 guide to a Florida delicacy, plus a tasty seafood dipping sauce