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

• Find out how three Virginia farm corn mazes surprise visitors.
• Hear from Virginia’s gubernatorial candidates about their agricultural and rural priorities.
• Learn how Southwest Virginia farmers are faring a year after Hurricane Helene’s devastation.
• Discover how to mitigate poison ivy problems.
• Learn how to prepare creamy sweet corn and goat cheese risotto, and stuffed salt baked potatoes for your fall gatherings.
• Watch goats and yoga enthusiasts challenge a world record!
• Explore natural wonders of all kinds in Rockbridge County.

October’s first episode premiered Oct. 15 on the Real Virginia YouTube channel. The second episode will premiere on YouTube Oct. 30.

Real Virginia airs nationwide at 4:30 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 WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk, and on the first and third Sundays of each month at 10 a.m. on WVIR Charlottesville and at 6:30 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. And on Blue Ridge PBS and PBS Appalachia on Sundays at 11am.