Featured this month on Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program:
- Follow unique ruby red nectarines from a Shenandoah Valley orchard to Staunton’s Maude and the Bear restaurant.
- Learn about support for first-time farmers through Virginia Cooperative Extension, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Coalition program.
- Discover how a former Virginia Tech soccer player turned her awareness of playing surfaces into groundbreaking research on athlete safety and performance.
- Find out why Virginia agricultural education programs are facing a teacher shortage.
- Meet farmers who are growing more than food.
- Learn how to turn garden resolutions into reality.
- Discover how to make a smoked Bloody Mary.
January’s first episode premiered Jan. 15 on the Real Virginia YouTube channel. The second episode will premiere on YouTube Jan. 31.
Real Virginia airs nationwide at 8:30 a.m. on the first and third Thursdays 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 7 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.
