Garden & Gun

Celebrating the best of Southern culture, music, food, style, travel, art, literature, and the sporting life. Plus, lots of good dogs.

Garden & Gun

Island Escape • EXPLORING THE SOUTH’S WILD BEAUTY WITH A CUMBERLAND ISLAND LOCAL

Sweet Tooth • Finding treasures from the sea

“You can see the sights, burn some calories, and get a po’boy—or a sno-ball—afterward”

“Every trip to Kentucky has me hauling a suitcase of White Lily flour back to Oregon”

Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

Banding Together • THE SONS OF ALLMAN BROTHERS ROYALTY JOIN FORCES

The Past in Bloom • A BIRMINGHAM ARTIST’S BOTANICAL TAPESTRIES UPDATE A CENTURIES-OLD TECHNIQUE

Fortunate Son • WINSTON GROOM LOOKS BACK AT FORREST GUMP, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER THE OSCAR-WINNING FILM ADAPTATION’S DEBUT

Halls of Horror • A REAL-LIFE ATROCITY INSPIRES COLSON WHITEHEAD’S HEARTBREAKING NEW NOVEL

Strange Delights • A Florida native dreams up weird and wonderful stories

Time Capsules • A NORTH CAROLINA CENTENARIAN SAVES A SINGULAR SET OF HISTORIC TOBACCO-COUNTRY STRUCTURES

Land Yachts Ahoy • COOL CRUISERS, HOT STYLES, AND BURIED BOURBON

SOUTHERN FOCUS

Heirloom Varieties • GORGEOUS SUMMER TOMATO SLICES DESERVE ELEGANT SILVER SERVERS TO MATCH

Smash Hit • AN EAST TENNESSEE DISTILLERY KNOWN FOR MOONSHINE MAKES A RYE THAT REALLY ROCKS

Miami Spice • COOL CUCUMBERS MEET SZECHUAN HEAT IN CHEF RAYMOND LI JR.’S SURPRISINGLY REFRESHING SUMMER SIDE

MEET THE CHEF: RAYMOND LI JR.

Summer’s Other Melon • BUY IT FRESH AND TREAT IT RIGHT, AND CANTALOUPE MAY BECOME YOUR FAVORITE BITE OF THE SEASON

Counter Intelligence • AT ASHEVILLE’S INNOVATIVE BENNE ON EAGLE, CHEF ASHLEIGH SHANTI FUSES SOUTHERN FOOD TRADITIONS

Morning Glory • ONE OF A NEW GENERATION OF BREAKFAST SPOTS, KENNY’S IN CHATTANOOGA GIVES THE FIRST MEAL OF THE DAY THE RESPECT IT DESERVES

Eye Opener • New Orleans’ Turkey and the Wolf team does breakfast

Open House • CONTEMPORARY MEETS COMFORTABLE AT AN ALABAMA LAKE GETAWAY

Floating an Idea • BOWLS OF WATER KEEP QUICK-TO-WILT GARDENIAS GOING

Family Seats • A LIFELONG LOVE OF GARDENS INSPIRES HANDCRAFTED OUTDOOR FURNITURE

Cornucopia in Clay • THE ALABAMA ARTIST MARY KIRK KELLY CAPTURED THE SUBLIME BOUNTY OF SUMMER

Ode to Joy • A PATIENT PUG LIFTS AWAY THE WORRIES OF A HOMESICK POET IN KENTUCKY

Free in D.C. • THE POLITICS OF A SUMMER ESCAPE

ESCAPES • WHETHER IT’S THE WEST VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS OR THE BEACHES OF THE LOWCOUNTRY, THE SOUTH’S MOST BELOVED GETAWAYS HAVE BECKONED GUESTS FOR GENERATIONS. LOAD UP THE CAR AND GRAB THE ROAD SNACKS—THESE DESTINATIONS REMAIN JUST AS ENTICING AS EVER

A TOPSAIL LIFETIME • Measuring the years in trips to a North Carolina island

THE MOUNTAINS EVERY TIME • Memories and marvels rekindle each summer in the forests, waterfalls, and valleys of Western North Carolina

TOUR de PARKWAY • Your guide to the perfect joyride along the storied Blue Ridge Parkway

FLORIDA IDYLL • On Amelia Island, bumming around gets elevated to an art

THE TOO-MUCHNESS OF GALVESTON • Cotton-candy-sticky amusement—and how to escape it

DREAMING OF MONSTER • The POWERFUL PULL of the ANCIENT ALLIGATOR GAR DRAWS A NORTH CAROLINA WRITER DEEP into the TEXAS MUD

TWO for the ROAD • SHARING A LOVE OF MOTORCYCLES WITH HIS FATHER BRINGS A SON A LIFETIME OF LESSONS ALONG THE SOUTH’S BACK ROADS—INCLUDING HOW TO SAY GOODBYE

RIPE IDEAS • FIVE SOUTHERN CULINARY PROS SHARE THEIR FAVORITE RECIPES—from a CELEBRATORY STRAWBERRY FIZZ to a NOSTALGIC MIXED-BERRY SALAD to a SKILLET COBBLER with a SWEET...