Author: Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder
Julia Tilton reports on climate and energy for the Daily Yonder and is a multimedia producer for the Center for Rural Strategies. Julia has previously worked on NASA’s Curious Universe podcast and her reporting has been featured in news outlets from Nashville to Mexico. Julia graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in Earth & Environmental Sciences. She grew up in southern New Hampshire and is partial to the mountains and forests of the Northeast.
On a crisp afternoon in early April 2026, Richard Davis walked to the end of a boat launch on the Back River, a tidal channel that cuts through Midcoast Maine’s rocky coastline. As the tide swept in, Davis, co-founder of a local group called Protect Wiscasset and an area resident, fixed his attention on the…
Kevin Leavitt was just days away from getting reimbursed by the U.S. government for $48,000 when the Trump administration signed an executive order freezing federal funding and stopping payments to farmers across the country. Leavitt, who owns Farmer Kev’s Organic in West Gardiner, Maine, was authorized to receive money through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America…