Garden & Gun is a magazine about the culture of the Southern United States. It covers "sporting culture, food, music, art, and travel". The magazine won three ADDY Awards and eight Magazine Association of the Southeast GAMMA awards in its first year, while being named the nation’s second-hottest magazine launch in 2007 by MIN Magazine.[1] It was started in 2007 by publisher Rebecca Darwin, former publisher of The New Yorker and Mirabella, as part of the Evening Post Publishing Company.[2] After Evening Post Publishing decided at the end of 2008 to discontinue its funding of the magazine, it was purchased by Darwin and Evening Post board Chairman Pierre Manigault. Darwin became president of the new company.[3]
Garden & Gun is based in Charleston, South Carolina and covers “an adventure-bound, art-loving, skeet-shooting lifestyle”, as well as gardens, “Southern tradition” and land conservation.[2] The name Garden & Gun is an "inside reference to a popular ’70s Charleston disco called the Garden and Gun Club."[2]
Garden and Gun hosts an annual awards issue for "best of" made in the South products and companies. It had one of cartoonist and novelist Doug Marlette's last written works before he died in a car crash.[4] Other writers for the magazine include Pat Conroy, Roy Blount Jr. and Donna Tartt[5] Sid Evans became the magazine's editor in 2007.[5]