Garden & Gun

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

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Garden & Gun

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Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

Soft-Spoken Powerhouse • BLENDING SEVENTIES GUITAR, NINETIES ROCK, AND LYRICAL WINKS, MJ LENDERMAN SPARKLES ON MANNING FIREWORKS

Tuft Love • CARPET-INSPIRED TAPESTRIES LOOP BACK TO A SAVANNAH ARTIST’S ROOTS

That Dog Won’t Hunt • CAN YOU BANISH YOUR BUDDY’S UNRULY POOCH FROM THE DUCK BLIND?

Flip’s Dream Boat • A FLORIDA COMPANY UNVEILS A HYBRID CRAFT THAT WILL GO WHERE OTHERS CAN’T

Oceans Apart • RICHARD POWERS’S SUBLIME NEW NOVEL FATHOMS THE WONDER OF THE SEA

Windows to History • THE REVIVAL OF A CIVIL RIGHTS LANDMARK REACHES A MAJESTIC MILESTONE

The Family Apple Cake • A DUTCH-INSPIRED TREAT PERFECT FOR SNACKING AND SHARING

Tennessee’s Whiskey Revival • STANDOUT VOLUNTEER STATE DISTILLERS ARE MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME

Celery’s Moment • THE HUMBLE STALK GETS THE STAR TREATMENT IN CHEF JASON STANHOPE’S CRAVEABLE SALAD

A Corn Homecoming • LONG THOUGHT LOST, ANCESTRAL NATIVE AMERICAN VARIETIES FINALLY RETURN TO SOUTHEASTERN TRIBES

Seizing the Day • A MEMPHIS CHEF’S MODERN HOMAGE TO THE BREAKFAST JOINTS OF OLD

The Wood Menagerie • TWO MEXICAN ARTISTS KEEP AN ANCIENT ZAPOTEC TRADITION ALIVE

Alfresco Idyll • A LOWCOUNTRY FOOD LOVER BUILDS THE ULTIMATE OUTDOOR KITCHEN

Easy Does It • ON TRANQUIL EDISTO ISLAND, TWO FAMILIES INVITE AN OLD COTTAGE TO TELL ITS STORY

Deep Thoughts • SCOTTIE WAS SMARTER THAN MOST DOGS—AND NOT A FEW HUMANS

Object Lessons • AT COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG, RARE HANDICRAFTS UPLIFT BLACK HUMANITY

Cast-Iron Will • HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE SOUTH’S FAVORITE SKILLET

BEST IN FIELD • WHETHER YOU’RE HEADED to the DUCK BLIND or the QUAIL WOODS, a GOOD DOG CAN MAKE ALL the DIFFERENCE

A SPORTING DOG’S BEST FRIEND • From his time as a navy medical corpsman to working with bomb-sniffing dogs in Afghanistan, Grayson Guyer followed a winding path back to North Carolina and his true calling: training companion gundogs

WELL BRED • Seven sporting-dog breeders and the canines they love

PRITCHARD’S LAST RIDE • A hunter’s fitting send-off to a loyal, if sometimes hardheaded, Boykin spaniel

The GURUS OF GRAVY • While lesser-known than gumbo or jambalaya, gravy is a Cajun classic worth its weight in gradoux. And at the annual Blackpot Cookoff in Lafayette, it’s the stuff of legend

Saving the Southern Wilds • Louisiana BLACK BEARS , Alabama CAVE SHRIMP , Appalachian SPRUCE-FIR FORESTS , Chesapeake FALSE ALBACORE , Keys CORAL REEFS —these and hundreds of other precarious Southern species and ecosystems rely on the heroic efforts of this year’s lineup of groundbreaking SCIENTISTS , ADVOCATES , and NATURE LOVERS

SOUTHERNMOST TROUT • In the heart of Patagonia lies a land suspended in time, one teeming with some of the world’s richest—and most improbable—stretches for fly fishing

Honky-Tonk Holdouts • A TWO-STEPPING ODYSSEY ON AUSTIN’S ENDURING DANCE FLOORS

Chestnut Pilgrimage • ON THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA, A TINY TOWN CELEBRATES A RELATIVE OF A LOST APPALACHIAN TREASURE

Southern Draws • IN MISSISSIPPI, A CIGAR SHOP FUELS JUST THE RIGHT BLEND OF CAMARADERIE AND SOLITUDE

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

Game Changers • WHO NEEDS WORDLE WHEN YOU HAVE MACON FRY?