Monday, November 11, 2013

Agriculture in Richmond, VA from a Social Media Standpoint

Richmond, Virginia has a lot of agricultural opportunities. Their whole department of agriculture has a Facebook page is which they inform people of current agricultural needs, etc. There are plenty of website for dedicated to urban farming and healthy livings.

The use of Facebook is implemented in many of these sites to help reach a wider audience. Most of the pages info is shared between both the site and the Facebook page.

The University of Richmond has been promoting the planting of trees both on campus and in the city.

Dominion Harvest, a Virginia local produce company, takes adequate if the use of a blog to help promote their products and urban farming through the use of social media.

Tricycle Gardens in Richmond, VA

Tricycle Gardens is a nonprofit organization that is in Richmond. The is an organization aspiring for urban farming. They (more or less) hire people for a position to take part in the organization. They use their website to promote all of their activities and members.


Sources
https://www.dominionharvest.com
http://tricyclegardens.org
https://www.facebook.com/pages/University-of-Richmond/112575802087538?fref=ts
http://www.victoryfarmsinc.com
https://m.facebook.com/VaAgriculture?id=273441272741528&_rdr

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