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

• Discover how one food bank on Virginia’s Northern Neck is combining aquaponics, hydroponics and education to grow fresh produce for the region.
   
• Learn how the federal H-2A temporary worker program helps supply Virginians with the local farm products they enjoy.
   
• Discover how much of Page County is devoted to raising livestock, poultry and other agricultural products.

October’s first episode can now be viewed on the Real Virginia YouTube channel. The second episode, which premiered Oct. 12, also is available on YouTube.

Real Virginia airs nationwide at 5 p.m. on the first and third Saturdays 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 WBRA digital channel 15.2, the WHRO World Channel, WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk, and on the first and third Sundays of each month at 10 a.m. on WVIR Charlottesville and at 10:30 a.m. on WHSV Harrisonburg; and on the first and third Saturdays at 8 a.m. on WRLH Richmond and at 5:30 a.m. on WSLS Roanoke.