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Garden & Gun

August/September 2026
Magazine

Garden & Gun is a southern lifestyle magazine written for both men and women who have passion for all things southern; including the food, the arts and culture, the sporting lifestyle, the land, the travel destinations, and the overall ideals and values that make the south unique.

Garden & Gun

Fall on My Mind • Eyeing the dove opener and the seasons to come in the field

CONTRIBUTORS

LETTERS • Find us on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok @gardenandgun

Saban on Saban • Forget the usual postretirement game plan—this college football legend is drawing up his own next act

The Shakes Ride Again • Alabama Shakes find their groove on the band’s first album in more than a decade

Rodeo Drive • Star silversmith Clint Orms crafts a new generation of collectors

Comeback Cat • Scratching out a future for the elusive ocelot in Texas

Tasty Tomes • Southern-spiced culinary reads and cookbooks, course by course

Duck, Duck, Pool • What to do when a mama mallard takes up residence

Let the Good Times Rémoulade • A timeless take on a New Orleans favorite from a 170-year-old institution

Beer Before Liquor • Six Southern brews for cocktail lovers of every stripe

Asheville’s Bite-Size Italian Gem • A husband-and-wife duo help write the city’s next chapter

Southern Heat • Take okra up a notch by blending it into a hot sauce for seafood and more

Pensacola Homecoming • An artist’s colorful personality meets its match in a quirky bay-view cottage

Field Goods • Hunting gear never looked so sharp

Right for the Picking • The keen eye of a Charleston antiques maven keeps FOUND filled with the best of Europe

The (Inner) Life of Riley • Inside a pet psychic reading, with one eyebrow lifted

Consider the Lilies • Satisfying ways to measure a life, Southern adventures included

The Gallery

RAISING THE SPIRITS! • EXPLORING the MARGARITA’S MEXICO CITY RENAISSANCE, LOUISIANA RUM, and TENNESSEE WHISKEY’S NASHVILLE FLAVOR. PLUS: TOP BARS and REFRESHING COCKTAILS Cheers!

There Goes My Hero • In Southern lore, and for this crime novelist especially, the legend of Sheriff Buford Pusser went from Walking Tall to dancing with the devil

NANTUCKET for THE SOUL • Southerners have long escaped summer’s fury by venturing northward to the luxe New England island that launched a thousand ships and, 175 years ago, Moby-Dick. But those who seek true relief should answer the call of autumn

MARYETTA’S FOLLY • In Sewanee, Tennessee, the priest, scholar, sailor, artist, writer, and hostess extraordinaire Maryetta Anschutz welcomes you into her colorful, ever-evolving home

Peace, Love, and Breakfast Burritos • Long live Bert’s—Folly Beach, South Carolina’s high-vibration one-stop shop

A Carolina Encore • Musician Tift Merritt and her star team turn a historic Raleigh motor lodge into a getaway for all manner of creative types

THE SOUTHERN AGENDA • Goings-on in the South and Beyond

Cruise News • All aboard these just-announced water adventures

Crimsonette Dreams • I wanna come back as an Alabama twirler