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

A Room of Our Own • TRANSFORMING A LITTLE-USED SPACE INTO A FAVORITE SPOT IN THE HOUSE

Booze Bag • An elegant solution for toting your favorite bottles

CONTRIBUTORS

“Latria Graham’s writing makes you see, smell, and taste a new adventure”

Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

Chrissy Metz’s New Tune • THE THIS IS US STAR FINDS HER VOICE

Walls of Sound • ACROSS TIME—AND ART FORMS—MISSISSIPPI ROOTS MUSICIAN LUTHER DICKINSON BRINGS WALTER ANDERSON’S FAMED OCEAN SPRINGS MURALS TO LIFE

Wing Commander • AN ACE EASTERN SHORE WOOD-CARVER SHARES LESSONS IN HOW HE CRAFTS HIS ACCLAIMED DECOYS

There’s the Rub • TWO NEW BARBECUE BOOKS EXALT THE ROLE OF BLACK PITMASTERS

Poetry of Place • An essential primer on literary Mississippi

Fine and Dandy • FOP FATES, MOWING FANATICS, AND TEXAS SUBDIVISIONS

SOUTHERN FOCUS

Spring Flavor • RALEIGH CHEF CHEETIE KUMAR’S SPICE-TINGED ODE TO SEASONAL VEGGIES—AND BRIGHTER DAYS AHEAD

MEET THE CHEF: CHEETIE KUMAR

Winning Kick • A SUPERB GINGER SYRUP SPICES UP THE HOME COCKTAIL

Southern Baptist

Farm and Table • GEORGIA “CHEFARMER” MATTHEW RAIFORD’S NEW COOKBOOK CELEBRATES GULLAH GEECHEE CUISINE AND HIS JOURNEY HOME

Stalk of the Town • SPRING IS PRIME TIME FOR THESE VERSATILE, QUICK-COOKING SPEARS

Simple Chile and Honey Asparagus

A South Carolina Sporting Gem • NESTLED IN THE LUSH LOWCOUNTRY LANDSCAPE, BRAYS ISLAND IS AS MUCH A LUXURIOUS HOME AS IT IS A SPORTSMAN’S PARADISE

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BRAYS ISLAND

Kiawah River’s Lowcountry Allure • AMID SOUTH CAROLINA’S IDYLLIC SEA ISLANDS, A NEW COMMUNITY TREASURES THE NATURAL WORLD ABOVE ALL

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KIAWAH RIVER

Finding Bliss in the Blue Ridge Mountains • WITH THE HELP OF MCKEE PROPERTIES, TWO FAMILIES DISCOVERED THE SECOND HOMES OF THEIR DREAMS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Mc KEE PROPERTIES

West African Flavor • Dig into another taste of Memphis

Italian Survivor • A FEW MINUTES FROM GRACELAND, VALLE’S BOASTS FORTY YEARS OF HISTORY AND ONE DIVINE MUFFULETTA

Worthy of an Encore • CREATED BY AN INVENTIVE LOUISIANA HORTICULTURIST, THESE SEASON-DEFYING AZALEAS BURST WITH COLOR NEARLY ALL YEAR

Hit Refresh • AFTER A LONG STRETCH OF BEING AT HOME, IT’S TIME TO REFEATHER YOUR NEST

Nashville Showstopper • A HISTORIC ESTATE PROVIDES THE STAGE FOR AN AWARD-WORTHY REVIVAL

History Report • A TENNESSEE GUNMAKER REPRODUCES A POWDER RIFLE WITH TIES TO DAVY CROCKETT

Southern Exchange • CATCHING UP WITH BRITAIN’S STAR GARDENER MONTY DON, WHOSE WORK IS NOW CROSSING THE POND

A Puzzling Pooch • ON TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WINNIE, THE WONDER-WHY-SHE-LOOKS-LIKE-THAT DOG

SOUTHERN RETREATS • A SUNBEAM of a BEACH BUNGALOW on FLORIDA’S 30A, a WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN LODGE, and a MODERN LAKE HOUSE MARVEL in SOUTH CAROLINATHREE DREAMY HOMES EMBODY the IDEA of a STYLISH ESCAPE

VISTA VISION • A CLEVER LAYOUT and ARTFUL DECOR HELP a FAMILY MAKE the MOST of a 30A GETAWAY

FOREST SPIRIT • A WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HIDEAWAY WORKS as ONE with ITS SYLVAN SETTING

KEOWEE DREAM • A LONG-AWAITED REFUGE REFLECTS ITS LAKESIDE LOCALE in the SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS

LAND OF THE GIANTS • ON a SMALL RIVER OUTSIDE of ATLANTA, YEARS of CONSERVATION and STEWARDSHIP HAVE PAID OFF to CREATE a TROUT FISHERMAN’S PARADISE

THE LAST OF THE SOUTH GIRLS • WHITE HOUSE INSIDER. SOCIALITE. BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. PIONEERING BROADCASTER....