Get on down to the wild South.
We're a member-supported media company exploring the diverse ways Southerners connect with our local slice of the natural world. Through storytelling, deep reporting, and on-the-ground gatherings, we've built a community united by love for Southern landscapes—whether that's a backyard garden, a family deer camp, a city park, or a newly cut mountain bike trail.
Our mission is to strengthen the bonds between Southerners and their landscapes through storytelling. Join us in print beginning in 2025, as we chart a new course in Southern outdoor storytelling.
Boyce Upholt, the founder and editor-in-chief of Southlands, is a writer and “nature critic” based in New Orleans. His journalism has appeared in, among other publications, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and Oxford American. His story in The New Republic about how a troubling new farm chemical sparked conflicts in Arkansas—and what that means for the future of agriculture—won a 2019 James Beard Award. His first book, The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, was published by W.W. Norton in June 2024.
