Walkingfish "Farm" is a 40 acre parcel of land located on US Route #2 in Cabot, Vermont (parcel ID #12-038.000) owned by Julia St. James, also known as "Julia Edwards" and as "Terri Hicks".

Julia is the recipient of the "Plaque for Doobie-ous Distinction", an award given by the Portland Phoenix after her repeated marijuana-related arrests and convictions. Upon giving the award, the Portland Phoenix noted that Julia:

...had her campaigning interrupted this fall by her arrest for felony cultivation and trafficking in marijuana, after police discovered over 175 pot plants growing on her property. In a profile in the Lewiston Sun Journal a couple of weeks later, she listed one of her interests as "horticulture."

Julia has substance abuse problems, partly indicated by her multiple arrests for driving under the influence. The "campaigning" the article refers to was, according to the Sun Journal, "Julia St. James of Hartford, a self-described 'stoner' and 'weed farmer' who ran for the Maine Senate in District 14..."

The State of Maine has publicly-financed political campaigns. Though this wise system allows a more level playing field for elections closer to a real democracy, it is important to have honest politicians running in these campaigns.

One news report noted that, "For her Senate campaign, St. James was given more than $50,000 in Clean Election funds." The problem for Julia taking Clean Election money was that Julia was expected to run a clean election. Her campaign promised much, but "St. James said promises that her campaign would buy newspaper, radio and television ads were not fulfilled." This caused the State Of Maine to investigate candidates like Julia St. James.

Maine's Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices came to the conclusion that Julia's election campaign mismanaged money and could not account for much money that the people of the State of Maine had given to Julia to help with our democratic process. After an extensive investigation by the staff and a two-day hearing by the Commission, Julia was ordered to pay back tens of thousands of dollars to the State of Maine. Years later the State of Maine is still trying to recover money from the campaign.

Given Julia's background as a self-described "weed farmer", one cannot help but to wonder what is growing in the woods of or surrounding Walkingfish "Farm"? Or whether Julia has paid back the State of Maine the money she misappropriated from the clean election fund? And if not, will the State of Maine seek to regain its money from a 40-acre "farm" located in a highly-desireable area of Vermont?