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Farm Link working to connect farmers with land, on Real Virginia

Featured this month on Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program: • The Virginia Farm Link program has an updated website, and an ongoing mission to connect the next generation of farmers to available farmland. • Soaring fertilizer prices are creating concern for farmers as they prepare for spring planting. • Ornamental grasses and beautiful berries are featured on this month’s In the Garden.

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, WHSV Harrisonburg and WRLH Richmond.

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

Episode #350

Virginia Farm Link program offers farm transition workshops and resources, and a database of farm seekers and farm owners. Real Virginia can be viewed online on YouTube at

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VirginiaFarmBureau.

CENTURY FARMS

1,508

That’s how many properties in the state are designated as Virginia Century Farms under a program established by the General Assembly in 1997.