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

• Discover the craft of Virginia’s sparkling wine production.
• Learn how Southwest Virginia farmers found community support in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
• Explore how to care for lantana container plants and ways to boost garden production.
• Learn how to whip up Chef Tammy’s cider-braised mussels and spice-crusted duck breast.

December’s first episode premiered Dec. 14 on the Real Virginia YouTube channel. Stories from the second episode will become available over the following two weeks, and the full episode will be available on YouTube Dec. 31.

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.