VIRGINIA Food Facts and Trivia

FARMS & FARMERS
Virginia: approximate land area of 25,275,225 acres.
Farmland is 8,103,925 acres or 32.1% of total land.
Organic agriculture accounts for about 15,318 acres.
Number of Farms: 47,383
Principle Farm Operators:
Men: 39,537 Women: 7,846
(2013 - USDA Economic Research Service: www.ers.usda.gov )
[2007-2008 latest available data]

POPULATION & HUNGER
Virginia has a total population of: 8,096,604
Urban population: 6,984,503
Rural population: 1,112,101
Food insecure households*: 9.1%
Households with very low food security*: 3.2%
*Food insecurity - Limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.
Very low food security - At times during the year, eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and food intake reduced because the household lacked money and other resources for food.
(2013 - USDA Economic Research Service: www.ers.usda.gov )
(Population & Food Security data: 2011)

The first peanuts grown in the United States were grown in Virginia.

The first Thanksgiving in North America was held in Virginia in 1619.

The world's only oyster museum is on Chincoteague Island, Virginia.

· In 2011 Virginia changed designation of the Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) from State Fish (1993) to State Freshwater Fish.

· In 2011 the Striped bass (Morone saxatilis) was adopted as the official State Saltwater Fish.

· In 1982 Milk was adopted as the official State Beverage.

· In 1974 Virginia adopted the Oyster Shell (Crassostraea virginica) as the official State Shell.

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