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

• Visit a Shenandoah Valley farm at Christmas back in 1859.
• Halifax County is the home of the Southeastern Farmer of the Year.
• Broadband shortages pose challenges in rural Virginia.
• As coalfields turn to farm fields, an evolving Wise County is featured in this month's County Agricultural Close-up.

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 WVPT Harrisonburg, WBRA Roanoke, WCVE Richmond, WHRO Norfolk, WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk.

Watch Real Virginia anytime online at youtube.com/user/VirginiaFarmBureau.