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

Making a Wild Difference • CELEBRATING THE FOLKS ON THE FRONT LINES OF CONSERVATION

Everyday Edge • The perfect pocketknife?

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“The crow found the squash frustratingly irresistible, and oddly, its sentiments mirror my own”

Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

WHAT’S ONLINE • GARDENANDGUN.COM

Texas Ranger • CHARLEY CROCKETT BLAZED HIS OWN TRAIL TO BECOME ONE OF MUSIC’S MOST COMPELLING VOICES

Rare Pairs • MIAMI’S ALEPEL COLLABORATES WITH ARTISTS TO CREATE TRULY SINGULAR FOOTWEAR

Feeding the Massives • IT’S ALL HANDS ON DECK TO SAVE FLORIDA’S STRUGGLING MANATEES

American Canvas • CEDRIC SMITH PAINTS HIMSELF INTO THE NATION’S HISTORY

Seeing Specks • ARKANSAS WATERFOWL HUNTERS TAKE AIM AT A NEW ARRIVAL

Double Punch • CORMAC MCCARTHY DELIVERS BACK-TO-BACK KNOCKOUTS

More Epic Fall Fiction • An empathetic look at misunderstood Appalachia

Main Squeeze • PYTHON BUDS, BAMBOO BARRIERS, AND COLT WHISPERING

Goober Pie • FOOD NETWORK STAR KARDEA BROWN BRINGS THE SWEET IN THIS PEANUT-CHARGED PECAN PIE COUSIN

Fine and Brandy • A WARMING APPLE SPIRIT ACCENTS A NEW ORLEANS DARLING

Alabama Medley • SHARING THE FLAVORS OF HER EGYPTIAN HERITAGE, BAKER SARAH COLE IS WINNING OVER PALATES IN THE STATE’S BLACK BELT REGION

Oh My Bird • BOLD SPICES AND A FLAVORFUL PAN SAUCE AMP UP CHEF MEHERWAN IRANI’S DECADENT DUCK

Spain All Day • THE NEW CAFÉ AND WINE BAR FROM THE DUO BEHIND ASHEVILLE’S RENOWNED CÚRATE DOESN’T SKIMP ON GLOBAL FLAVOR

Wine and Dine • Good pours and good grub in West Asheville

Uptown Eclectic • PENNY FRANCIS BRINGS A COLORFUL GUMBO OF DESIGN ERAS TO A CENTURY-OLD NEW ORLEANS HOME

Blind Tested • DUCK-HUNTING GEAR THAT WILL STAND UP TO THE ELEMENTS—AND THAT MUCK-COVERED RETRIEVER WHO ENJOYS A GOOD SHAKE

Playing Favorites • SOUTHERN ARTISANS SHINE AT BIRMINGHAM’S STILL JOHNSON

House of Windsors • TAKE A LOAD OFF ON A TENNESSEE ORIGINAL

Pack Mentality • WHY SETTLE FOR ONE DOG WHEN YOU CAN HAVE FIVE?

Nobody’s More Country • BLACK COWBOYS—SOME OF THE ORIGINAL WRANGLERS—GET THEIR DUE AT A STEREOTYPE-BUSTING SOUTH CAROLINA FESTIVAL

Hobby Shopping • ON THE HUNT FOR EXCITING, ADVENTUROUS PASTIMES (WINDEX OPTIONAL)

CHAMPIONS OF CONSERVATION • IN A PRECARIOUS TIME FOR OUR SOUTHERN ECOSYSTEMS, THESE TEN UNDER-THE-RADAR SCIENTISTS, ADVOCATES, AND GROUNDBREAKERS ARE SAVING ENDANGERED BUTTERFLIES, DEFENDING THE EVERGLADES, FIGHTING FOR SHOREBIRDS, CREATING ART THAT SPEAKS FROM THE HEART, AND MORE

ON CHALK TIME • FOR THE FLY ANGLER, A TRIP TO THE FABLED STREAMS OF ENGLAND JUST MAY BE THE PINNACLE OF THE SPORTING LIFE

THE DUCKS OF HOME • A FEW CLASSIC SOUTHERN HAUNTS—AND THEIR CHALLENGES—CALL ONE LIFELONG WATERFOWL HUNTER BACK SEASON AFTER SEASON

THE WOMEN OF THE PALACE • FROM a 1920S COTTAGE on the GEORGIA COAST, GENERATIONS of SOUTHERN OUTDOORSWOMEN GAVE a WIDE-EYED YOUNG BOY an EDUCATION in the WAYS of the WATER, the ETHICS of the HUNT, and the INFINITE BEAUTY of the NATURAL WORLD

Tennessee Time Warp • A NOVELIST’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE WIND TOGETHER ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU

Writers’ Roost • WE CAME FOR THE GROUPER SANDWICHES AND STAYED TO PLAY AT BIRD’S APHRODISIAC OYSTER SHACK

The Southern Agenda • GOINGS-ON IN THE SOUTH & BEYOND

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The Dirt Whisperer • BEHIND EVERY GOOD GARDENER IS A COMPOST HEAP