David DiBenedetto

2 months ago | gardenandgun.com | David DiBenedetto |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Last summer, the Garden & Gun editorial team left our headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina, and headed to New Orleans for some frolic and inspiration. The plan was to spend our days brainstorming stories for 2025, and our nights exploring the town. The trip was such a success that it spawned the cover package of the issue you’re holding.

Nov 18, 2024 | gardenandgun.com | David DiBenedetto |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

As this issue was going to press in mid-October, two historic hurricanes, Helene and Milton, had recently left paths of widespread destruction in their wakes. While Milton roared into the Tampa Bay area and then pushed across Florida and out into the Atlantic, Helene smashed into the Panhandle and then rolled deep into parts of Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia that rarely see the one-two punch of tropical winds and torrential rainfall.

Sep 19, 2024 | gardenandgun.com | David DiBenedetto

SportingA hunter’s fitting send-off to a loyal, if sometimes hardheaded, Boykin spaniel The day after putting my dog Pritchard down, I started keeping a journal, a place I knew I would need to log my emotions when others had tired of me lamenting her loss. Within the first few pages I wrote, “The shadows and dreams are the toughest parts. The pair of pants on the floor that at three AM look like P. Or the shadows the late-afternoon sun casts on the couch.

Sep 16, 2024 | gardenandgun.com | David DiBenedetto |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Since its founding some seventeen years ago, G&G has been a dog-friendly company. In our original office, staffers’ pups knew the UPS guy by the sound of his steps outside the door, and there was always a spare tennis ball rolling through the hallways. When we outgrew those quarters and moved to a space that could handle the growing staff, the dogs came with us. The editorial team has no shortage of dog lovers, and we’re rarely far from a soft ear to scratch.

Jul 22, 2024 | gardenandgun.com | David DiBenedetto |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

For the better part of twenty-five years, G&G contributing editor T. Edward Nickens and I have spent a good chunk of our phone conversations discussing our children, specifically about raising them outdoors. We both grew up exploring the woods and water, Nickens in the Piedmont of North Carolina, and me on the tidal creeks and estuaries of coastal Georgia. When we first met, I was a young editor in New York City, and a family of my own did not top my to-do list.