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Garden & Gun is a national magazine focusing on the Southern United States. The magazine reports on the South's culture, food, music, art, literature, and its people and their ideas. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, it was created in 2007 by the Evening Post Publishing Company. Since 2009, it has been owned by the Allée Group LLC. The company also produces the Whole Hog podcast, the Fieldshop retail store, the Garden & Gun Club restaurant, and about 75 events each year. It has published several books.[citation needed]
The magazine was conceived in 2004 by Pierre Manigault, chairman of Evening Post Publishing, and John Wilson, and launched three years later by EPP with Wilson as editor in chief and Rebecca Wesson Darwin as publisher.[1][2] In its first year, the magazine won three ADDY Awards and eight Magazine Association of the Southeast GAMMA awards, and was named the nation's second-hottest magazine launch by MIN Magazine.[3] The magazine has won many national awards, including National Magazine Awards in 2011, 2014, and 2015; and The Society of Publication Designers Brand of the Year award in 2018.
In 2009, Evening Post Publishing sold the magazine to Indigo Acquisition LLC, formed by Darwin and Manigault. Circulation was 223,000 at the time.[4] Indigo was renamed Garden and Gun LLC in 2010 and "merged out of existence"[5] in 2014, a year after Darwin and Manigault formed Allee Group[6], the magazine's current legal owner.
Garden & Gun covers art, skeet-shooting, gardens, Southern tradition, and land conservation.[1] The name Garden & Gun is explained as an "inside reference to a popular 1970s Charleston disco called the Garden and Gun Club."[1] It is also explained as a metaphor for the South's land, people, lifestyle, and heritage.[7]
Since 2010, Garden & Gun has issued annual Made in the South Awards to celebrate and encourage Southern craftsmanship and to recognize the best Southern-made products in six categories: Food, Drink, Home, Style, Crafts, and Outdoors. The best-in-show winner receives $10,000; all category winners and runners-up are featured in the magazine's December/January issue.
The magazine published one of cartoonist and novelist Doug Marlette's last written works before he died in a car crash.[8][9] Other contributors have included Pat Conroy, Roy Blount Jr., Donna Tartt, Julia Reed,[10] Rick Bragg, John T. Edge, Jessica B. Harris, Allison Glock, and Kim Severson.[11]
Sid Evans replaced Wilson as editor in chief in 2008[11], and was replaced in fall 2011 by David DiBenedetto.
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