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Buying Local
The latest consumer
trend is demanding fresh and local foods. One grocery chain has heard
their customers loud and clear. Norm Hyde has their story.
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Museum offers education
in frontier history
The roots of American
culture and America's success are on display at the Frontier Culture
Museum in Staunton, Virginia. Sherri McKinney reports.
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New Beginning for Tobacco Country
Halifax County has been a dominant tobacco growing region in Virginia
for hundreds of years. But, as Sherri McKinney explains, after the
recent tobacco buyout, farmers began looking into other crops to keep
agriculture productive in their area ... Including wine grapes.
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Indoor facility gives fish farming a
boost
Fish farming in Virginia traditionally has
been done outdoors in ponds or streams. That trend is changing. The
nation's largest indoor aquaculture facility brings that industry to the
forefront of agriculture.
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Farmers help feed the hungry
with deer meat
Group of Virginia farmers spends their own
money to make it easier for harvested deer meat to go to Hunters for the
Hungry.
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Farmers getting many
new neighbors
Suburban growth means many
Virginia farmers are getting a lot of new neighbors. Norm Hyde reports
some farmers are trying to educate them on just what to expect by living
in the countryside.
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