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Broadband access is reaching more Virginia farmers, on Real Virginia
Featured this month on
Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program:
- Virginia schoolchildren are learning to garden without soil.
- Protect your plants from early spring freezes with some helpful tips.
- Precise weather forecasting can be the difference between success and failure on the farm.
- Electric cooperatives bring high-speed, reliable broadband internet access to several rural areas, featured on this month’s Farm Focus.
- Learn tips for starting your own backyard greenhouse, featured on this month’s From the Ground Up.
- Rising property values pose challenges for new farmers.
March’s first episode can now be viewed on the
Real Virginia YouTube channel. The second episode, which is scheduled to premiere March 15 also will be available on YouTube.
Real Virginia airs nationwide at 3:30 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month on RFD-TV on Dish Network and DirecTV, and on selected cable outlets around the state. It airs weekly on WBRA digital channel 15.2, WHRO Norfolk, WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk, and on the first and third weekends of each month on WVIR Charlottesville, WHSV Harrisonburg, WRLH Richmond and WSLS Roanoke.