This just in from the The (Va.) Daily Press in Tidewater:
In the beginning, there was ham.
The very first English settlers in Virginia — the original Jamestown colonists — brought pigs with them when they crossed the Atlantic. The first wave in 1607 brought three, historians tell us.
In short order, that trio of oinkers increased to [...]

Noted Civil War historian James Robertson will discuss the ramifications of military rations and their affects on the soldiers, for whom diarrhea was the most prevalent disease, according to a news release. There will also be a demonstration of a pork-based dish commonly eaten by troops in that war.
Friday, March 28, 2008 at noon at [...]

When Tom Klatka looks across Buchannan’s bottom at Virginia Tech’s Kentland plantation, he sees more than an orderly agricultural testing center. He sees the beginnings of North American agriculture.
In his mind, Klatka conjures the dozens of known and unknown Native American villages hugging Montgomery County’s Fertile Crescent, the floodplain of a horseshoe bend in the New River, [...]

This just in from Virginia Tech’s public information department:
“Virginia Tech’s funding for research and development in the agricultural sciences jumped nearly $8.8 million in 2006, according to the most recent figures from the National Science Foundation. This raises Virginia Tech from the No. 11 to the No. 10 ranking for agricultural research expenditures in the [...]