Garden & Gun is a southern lifestyle magazine that’s all about the magic of the new South – the sporting culture, the food, the music, the art, the literature, the people, and the ideas. It espouses a strong conservation ethic that grows out of its connection to the land, and it reveals the beauty of the South as no magazine ever has.
THE GARDEN
Highly visual stories and essays about special places and landscapes in 21st Century Southern America. This is the the pasture, the backyard, the field, the mountain – and the preservation of the South’s natural expanse for future generations.
THE GUN
Fishing, upland bird hunting, skeet and trap, equestrian sports – and the travel, arts, food, and wildlife that go along with this sporting life of taking part or watching – these are the elements that are at the heart of each issue.
LEGENDARY PUBLISHERS IN THE NEW SOUTH
Garden & Gun has fine footing and support in the South. Launched in early 2007, the magazine is backed by the privately held Evening Post Publishing Co., the same publishers of the “South’s Oldest Daily Newspaper,” the Charleston, S.C. The Post and Courier. Pierre Manigault, a third generation leader of the Evening Post Publishing Co., has worked closely on the development of Garden & Gun.
The Evening Post Publishing Co. recently established a ventures corporation to develop new business opportunities including real estate, new media services and consumer publications. The consumer publications division includes Garden & Gun, along with a new books unit. Charleston-based Evening Post Publishing Co. owns 23 media outlets, including newspapers in South Carolina, North Carolina and Texas, as well as television stations in California, Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana and Texas. Internationally, the company owns the English-language daily newspaper in Buenos Aries, Argentina, and Solo Syndicate, Ltd. in London, England.
Garden & Gun is led by an eclectic group of individuals with a unique combination of publishing excellence, creative imagination, and a passion for the Southern lifestyle. Their talents, experience and deep connections to literary, artistic and sporting pursuits are at the heart of a magazine that truly embodies 21st Century Southern America.
February 8, 2008 at 9:46 pm
You created this magazine just for me, right? I mean, I know you’re going around pretending to have other subscribers, but let’s get real for a minute.
After all, I grew up in Savannah, following my physician father to dove and quail hunts on nearby plantations.
Going to college in Alabama took me away from the low-country, but introduced me to the joys of riding hunter-jumpers. This year, if I’m lucky, I’ll foxhunt in Aiken for the first time.
As I type this, my beagle, Daisy, an eight month old rabbit dog, is curled at my feet. In the morning, we’ll join a local pack to test our mettle against the eastern cotton tail.
The pack belongs to my boyfriend, a South Carolinian and university professor, who, if he’s smart, will be rounding up a Ray Ellis or C. Ford Riley print for Valentine’s Day next week.
Okay, seriously, I realize that there are more people in your target audience than me and Daisy here, but it feels like you produced your magazine just for us.
Well, maybe not entirely for me. For Valentines, I gave the South Carolina boyfriend a subscription to G&G. He’ll be thrilled.
So, thanks. Thanks for capturing this graceful, romantic, often-witty, and stylish slice of Southern outdoor life.
May you have a long and successful run.
August 19, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Everything seems so quiet now. I am missing your magazine. When is the next issue.
Flem Snopes
November 10, 2008 at 1:46 pm
As a food writer dedicated to preserving our southern food heritage, I am thrilled someone sent me this link today! I look forward to reading your magazine!
Christy Jordan
December 4, 2008 at 1:17 am
As a travel writer who appreciates all that is the South, I am glad I came across your savory magazine while at the dentist. It’s a snapshot of the South that shows a real appreciation for being Southern that is the envy of other regions.
Carl Burnham
Southpoint.com
December 6, 2008 at 10:48 pm
The fist thing I do when my issue of G & G arrives in my mailbox is to feel the pages. And then I smell them. You laugh, but Flannery O’Connor bought a chess set just to feel the pieces (she never learned to play) and she also liked to smell the pages of National Geographic. “A sensualist I am,” she once said. G&G delivers to people like me who have all senses firing… the photography and art and writing and topics and… it’s all good. I’m writing a memoir about growing up in Mississippi, and while my life wasn’t as charmed as visitors to Blackberry Farm (my husband is a physician and he’s been there, to speak)I can relate to Marshall Chapman’s “Whole Lotta Christmas” as I, too, am still trying to make sense of Jesus, Santa and Jerry Lee…. So keep up the good work. Kudos!