CHRISTMAS TREES
$10
million That’s the amount Virginia Christmas tree sales top annually.
WATCH US
Fall activities and pumpkins are featured on Real Virginia
Featured this month on Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program: • Virginia pumpkin growers continue to attract visitors to their U-pick patches. • Learn to identify invasive plants in your garden. • New Kent County’s pumpkins and other crops are featured in this month’s County Agriculture 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 WBRA digital channel 15.2, WHRO Norfolk, WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk, and on the first and third weekends of each month on WVIR Charlottesville and WRLH Richmond. Watch Real Virginia anytime online at youtube.com/ user/VirginiaFarmBureau.
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CULTIVATE
Find It and Win! Cultivate magazine is offering a new contest for its readers. In each issue, search for a farming icon, and enter to win. This month’s icon is a pumpkin. Contest rules are as follows: Find the pumpkin inside this publication. Once you’ve located it, send an email to membershipbenefits@vafb.com with the subject line “Found It.” The body of the email must contain the following: • Your name • Your mailing address • The membership benefit advertisement located nearest the image • The page number where the icon is located The first 15 members who submit correct entries will win a 20-ounce stainless steel Virginia Farm Bureau logo tumbler. Readers are eligible to 20-OZ. stainless steel win only one tumbler during the Virginia Farm Bureau contest period, January through logo tumbler! December 2021. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery. Winners will be contacted by email. *Virginia Farm Bureau and Countryway employees are not eligible to win.
