Featured this month on Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program:

• Venture to Virginia’s Eastern Shore, where Cherrystone Aqua Farms is raising millions of claims each year while promoting the health of the Chesapeake Bay.
• Visit Dinwiddie County—one of Virginia’s most diverse agricultural communities—to see where farmers are producing tobacco, cotton and small grains and raising beef cattle, hogs, sheep and goats.
• Learn how to extend your gardening season with interplanting and frost protection.
• Discover how to make a creamy and refreshing radish and potato soup.

September’s episode will premiere Sept. 30 on the Real Virginia YouTube channel.

Real Virginia airs nationwide at 8 a.m. on the first and third Thursdays of each month in the Voices of Agriculture program on RFD-TV on Dish Network and DirecTV; and on selected cable outlets around the state. It airs weekly on WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk, and on the first and third Sundays of each month at 7 a.m. on WHSV Harrisonburg and at 10 a.m. on WVIR Charlottesville; and on the first and third Saturdays at 5:30 a.m. on WSLS Roanoke and at 8 a.m. on WRLH Richmond.