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1 week ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Lindsey Liles
Recipe 6-8 servings Goode Company in Houston is serving up the perfect flame-kissed spring side The Goode family is no stranger to the power of fire in building flavor: When Jim Goode and his uncle, Joe Dixie, started their first restaurant in a Houston barn in 1977, the pair slept there, waking up every hour to check on their mesquite-smoked brisket.
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1 week ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Lindsey Liles
Recipe 4 servings This Old Florida delicacy may be a pain to harvest but it’s a nostalgic delight to eat Of the eleven species of palm trees native to Florida, the sabal palm is by far the most prolific, growing statewide from the Panhandle all the way to the Keys, in nearly every ecosystem along the way. Fittingly, the species has been the state tree of Florida since 1953 and provides a nostalgic treat for Floridians: swamp cabbage.
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3 weeks ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Lindsey Liles |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
While reporting a story at Archbold Biological Station in the ancient sand dunes of Central Florida in March, I stand on the porch under a starry sky and hear one of my favorite sounds in the world: the lilting call of a whippoorwill. Excited, I whip out my phone to text the news to ornithologist John Fitzpatrick—incidentally the cofounder of e-Bird, which powers the hugely popular birding app Merlin—who is staying in a nearby cabin.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Lindsey Liles
Was That a Whippoorwill or a Chuck-Will’s-Widow? While reporting a story at Archbold Biological Station in the ancient sand dunes of Central Florida in March, I stand on the porch under a starry sky and hear one of my favorite sounds in the world: the lilting call of a whippoorwill. Excited, I whip out my phone to text the news to ornithologist …
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4 weeks ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Lindsey Liles |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
“When you plant milkweed and a monarch comes and lays an egg on it, you know for sure that this amazing thing happened because of what you did,” says Kim Bailey of Milkweed Meadows Farm in Asheville. She knows the feeling well. For the last decade, Bailey has grown (and sold) all sorts of native milkweed on her hundred-acre farm in support of the monarch’s awe-inspiring annual migration—2,500 miles logged by an insect that weighs less than a paper clip.
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4 weeks ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Lindsey Liles |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
Land & Conservation This volcanic depression in the middle of nowhere is the only place in the world you can find—and keep—the precious gemstone The parking lot of Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, is enough to tell you there’s something interesting going on here. A glance around reveals Wisconsin, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Cherokee Nation, and Texas tags. The far-flung visitors have all converged in this tiny town for one reason: They hope to find diamonds.
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4 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Lindsey Liles
Texas menace accused of ramming mini 4-wheeler into parked Teslas in chaotic spreeAn ATV-riding Texan was a massive problem to Tesla owners when he allegedly rammed his 4-wheeler into multiple cars during an unprovoked hit-and-run spree on Tuesday. Demarqeyun Marquize Cox was arrested after one of his alleged attacks was recorded by the Tesla he purposely ran into, police in …
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1 month ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Lindsey Liles |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
Where: Northwest ArkansasWhen: year-roundIf you like: the outdoors and sportsWhy you should go: In the Ozark Mountains, the conditions are almost perfect for mountain biking. The ancient formation offers steep, jagged hills without the grueling elevation change of, say, the Rockies; the ground is naturally gravelly, so rain rarely closes trails; and relatively mild weather permits biking year-round.
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1 month ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Lindsey Liles |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
Where: Allegheny Mountains, West VirginiaWhen: winterIf you like: the outdoors and sports Why you should go: Flying downhill is a fun way to enjoy snow, but it’s not the only way, especially in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Come December, when the peaks and slopes start whitening up for winter, cross-country skiers cut a leisurely course through this Southern snowbelt.
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1 month ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Lindsey Liles |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
Where: Spiro, OklahomaWhen: year-roundIf you like: historyWhy you should go: From AD 800 to 1450, some 10,000 people lived in a bustling city on a bend in the Arkansas River in what is now eastern Oklahoma. But the significance of Spiro Mounds, a series of grassy hills near the Arkansas border, has as much to do with who visited.
