Alabama favorites- and a few others are featured in this October’s issue of Elle Magazine. Including photography by Robert Rausch.

Southern writing has always held it’s own in the world of literature, theater and cinema. Today, one exceptional monthly example is the small but ambitious Oxford American.

The August/September issue of ReadyMade magazine features a garden challenge that we won! We improved the studio’s outdoor area with sustainable features.

Be sure to look for our photography of Farm 255 in Athens, GA- featured in this month’s Travel & Leisure.

Renowned garden designer and friend Ryan Gainey was featured in the May 2008 issue of Veranda magazine. Ryan designs environments to earthenware, capturing the whimsical in the natural world. It was a pleasure to visit and photograph Ryan in Decatur, Georgia.

Tasia Malakasis of Belle Chevre is featured as one of Country Living Magazine’s women entrepreneurs. We photographed Tasia and the women of Belle Chevre last summer. Making this cheese is a labor of love; the farm and factory are only a few miles apart. Support your local farmers!

Robert Rausch photographed a Birmingham family’s home for this month’s issue of Garden & Gun. Learn how Architect Jeff Dungan transformed a former Pennsylvania barn into an “energy efficient and sustainable- genteel home”.

Again we have Ready Made Magazine’s Garden Challenge to thank for prompting us to make a solar espalier bottle tree for our court yard. It is made from recycled re-barb, warm glass bottles that we recycled, spoiled welding wire. The solar panel is in the nest that lights the led lights on the tree. We think it’s a beautiful addition to the court yard.

Ready Made magazine’s garden challenge was the perfect encouragement that we needed to put in a rain barrel in our court yard. I picked up an old Jack Daniels barrel on my way back from a triathlon in Tennessee. Now we have healthy happy plants that are fed with whiskey charcoal infused rain water. The warm aroma a sweet whiskey came from the barrel as we drilled the whole for the spicket.

GAS Creative Fuel (Robert Rausch) has new photographs in this summer’s issue of Bridge for Design, the international resource for interior design. The photographs feature a new line of butterfly fabrics. The images were taken in Lauderdale County near the Forks of Cypress.