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

An Oyster Tradition • GATHERING BY THE FIRE AND MAKING MEMORIES AT A BEACH HOUSE BUILT FOR FAMILY

Let the Games Begin • Cornhole boards made to last

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“I start at the back, for some unknown reason, and read every issue from cover to cover”

WE ASKED... What was the name of your first dog? • In our Talk of the South newsletter, readers told us about their first four-legged best friends.

Triple Threat • PATRICK WILSON ACTS, SINGS, AND DANCES HIS WAY FROM APPALACHIA TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGEST FRANCHISES

Arts and Sciences • BRANDON BALLENGÉE INTERPRETS THE NATURAL WORLD IN THE LAB, ON CANVAS, AND BEYOND

Secret Ingredients • A COMPELLING NEW HISTORY ENSHRINES FORGOTTEN TASTEMAKERS

More Praise for Chefs • Dynamite new cookbooks honor Southern flavors

Three Chords and the Kernal • WITH VIVID STORYTELLING, SLY HUMOR, AND ONE LOUD SUIT, THE KERNAL BRINGS HIS OWN BRAND OF IRRESISTIBLE COUNTRY

St. Paul Returns • New music from a Birmingham favorite

Small-Bore Toms • A NEW BREED OF AMMO IS CHANGING THE WAY WE TURKEY HUNT

Steal Magnolias • POCKET GARDEN PICKPOCKETS, HORSES OF A DIFFERENT COLOR, AND THE ORIGIN OF BOCEPHUS

New York, New York

Tale of Two Artists • A HOMEGROWN CHEF AND A WOODWORKING TRANSPLANT CHOOSE ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, AS THE BACKDROP FOR THEIR CREATIVE JOURNEYS

An Artist’s View of Asheville • Where do hardworking creatives go to play? Western North Carolina serves up a heady array of opportunities to imbibe, indulge, and explore

Home Rum • AN EXCEPTIONAL NEW SOUTHERN BLEND CELEBRATES TASTES OF THE CARIBBEAN

Souped Up • SAVORY MUSHROOM PESTO ELEVATES THE FLAVOR IN BLACKBERRY MOUNTAIN CHEF JOEY EDWARDS’S WARMING POTATO SOUP

MEET THE CHEF: JOEY EDWARDS

Whiskey Trailblazer • SAMARA B. DAVIS, THE FOUNDER OF BLACK BOURBON SOCIETY, ON STANDOUT SIPS AND SETTING A WELCOMING TABLE

True Blues • OLE TIMEY BLUE COLLARDS ADD SWEETNESS—AND BEAUTY—TO YOUR WINTER GARDEN

Seafood Salute • SEABIRD BRINGS A SOPHISTICATED TASTE OF NORTH CAROLINA’S SALTWATER BOUNTY—AND BIVALVES FOR BREAKFAST—TO DOWNTOWN WILMINGTON

Deep Dive • Walk the plank at the Fat Pelican

Escape to the Smokies • LAURA LEIGH AND JOSH ELLIOTT SPEND A ROMANTIC WEEKEND IN SEVIERVILLE, TENNESSEE

Indoor Oasis • HOUSEPLANTS READY FOR DISPLAY, DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR HOME

Heir to the Thrown • AN ARKANSAS POTTERY STUDIO RETURNS BRIGHT HISTORIC MOCHA WARE TO TABLES

Home Theater • A WEST PALM BEACH DECOR HAVEN PUSHES THE BOUNDS OF IMAGINATION

Matters of the Heart • AN EXPRESSIVE PLOTT HOUND HELPS A CANINE RESEARCHER FIND HER CALLING

Wisdom of the Ancients • THE SOUTH’S OLDEST TREES HAVE STORIES TO TELL

Welcome to Howardville • POPULATION: SOMETIMES TOO MANY AND OFTEN JUST ENOUGH

COASTING HOME • A MODERN TREE HOUSE IN THE BAHAMAS, A LOUISIANA FISHING OUTPOST WITH MUSTIQUE MYSTIQUE, AND A WHITE STUCCO STUNNER IN FLORIDA HORSE COUNTRY TAKE THEIR CUES FROM THE CHARM AND PACE OF ISLAND LIVING

BAHAMAS HIDEAWAY • TWO MIAMI ARCHITECTS BRING THEIR DREAMS TO LIFE WITH A SUBLIME BUNGALOW ON ELEUTHERA

LOUISIANA FISH CAMP • RUSTIC IDEALS MEET RAREFIED DESIGN AT A NEW ORLEANS FAMILY’S WATERSIDE GETAWAY

PALM BEACH PASTORAL • A BUSY WELLINGTON FAMILY SLOWS TO A TROT IN FLORIDA HORSE COUNTRY

SMOKE, TIME,and the (NEARLY) LOST ART of SACK SAUSAGE • A TRIO of DEVOTEES HIT the ROAD in SEARCH of a LEGENDARY TASTE of the PAST THAT’S HANGING by a THREAD

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