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Hanover tomatoes have become one of the commonwealth's most recognizable agricultural products at roadside stands, on seasonal menus and among generations of Virginians who insist they simply taste better than tomatoes grown anywhere else.

The annual Hanover Tomato Festival has helped cement that reputation since it began in the 1970s as a fundraiser for the Hanover County Volunteer Fire Department.

The event has grown into one of Central Virginia's largest summer festivals, drawing out-of-state visitors — and even former presidents — eager to sample fresh heirlooms, beefsteaks and tomato-centric recipes.

Beneath the celebration lies a question that has lingered in the minds of outsiders and even some locals: What actually makes Hanover tomatoes so special?

Hanover's geography contributes to its agricultural wealth, as the thin slice of territory rests on a geological boundary known as the Fall Line — a barrier that separates soft sediments of the Coastal Plain from the Piedmont region's hardened bedrock.

Read more here.

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Source: Post by @beyer.house.gov — Bluesky

KeystoneGIS.com - NoVA Wetland Conservation Priority Atlas

Over 2/3 of NoVAs wetlands have zero protection, and a lot of them are already under pressure from expanding development.

Map and citation

Hello all,

r/Virginia's current moderators could use a hand (or several!) and are looking to expand the size of the mod team. If you're interested in applying, here's the link!

Some statistics on this subreddit's activity level:

• The subreddit has about 365k subscribers.
• The overall traffic to r/Virginia largely is downstream of real-world events that impact Virginia which people want to discuss. To illustrate this, check out the chart below and note the increase in traffic in October and November of last year in the runup to the 2025 general elections, as well as the increase related to the 2026 General Assembly session followed by the redistricting referendum.

r/Virginia's traffic statistics over the past year

• Over the last month we've had about 26,000 posts and comments published, about 7k of which were removed (mostly via Automoderator and the various safety filters; many of the affected posts/comments were ultimately made visible).

About the role

• Compensation is $0 (and a sense of satisfaction in helping to maintain an open forum for discussion of local issues).
• The two core tasks we need help with are (1) reviewing the queue of reported and filtered posts and comments and (2) reviewing and resolving open modmail threads.
• You can do additional things to benefit the subreddit like facilitating AMAs, creating 'event' threads, and so on if you'd like to.
• We have a consensus model for setting moderation policy, and from there largely operate independently in implementing it. We communicate via Reddit and do not currently have external communication tools.

Again, if you are interested in applying to moderate r/Virginia, then here's the link to apply. Feel free also to ask questions about the role in the comments.

Or are the moderates too deeply entrenched in Virginia?

Hello!

I am one of the moderators of the r/Virginia subreddit, and the primary person who coordinates AMAs (Ask Me Anything) events for that subreddit. The other day I made a post requesting AMA suggestions, and one person suggested I put together an AMA with multiple teachers from different school districts in Virginia.

The initial suggestion was a teacher from a rural district and a NoVA-based teacher. I am modifying this to (at least ideally) try to put together an AMA with public school teachers from a rural, a suburban, and an urban area, which brings me to the point of this post:

If you are a former teacher in one or several Southside-based school districts, and you would be interested in taking questions from the internet about your experiences teaching, please let me know at this link:

https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/Virginia

If you know someone who would fit the bill, please send them my way! If it's something that they would need more information about I would be happy to provide it.

Hello!

I am one of the moderators of the r/Virginia subreddit, and the primary person who coordinates AMAs (Ask Me Anything) events for that subreddit. The other day I made a post requesting AMA suggestions, and one person suggested I put together an AMA with multiple teachers from different school districts in Virginia.

The initial suggestion was a teacher from a rural district and a NoVA-based teacher. I am modifying this to (at least ideally) try to put together an AMA with public school teachers from a rural, a suburban, and an urban area, which brings me to the point of this post:

If you are a former RPS teacher and would be interested in taking questions from the internet about your experiences teaching in RPS, please let me know at this link:

https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/Virginia

If you know someone who would fit the bill, please send them my way! If it's something that they would need more information about I would be happy to provide it.

Hello!

I am one of the moderators of the r/Virginia subreddit, and the primary person who coordinates AMAs (Ask Me Anything) events for that subreddit. The other day I made a post requesting AMA suggestions, and one person suggested I put together an AMA with multiple teachers from different school districts in Virginia.

The initial suggestion was a teacher from a rural district and a NoVA-based teacher. I am modifying this to (at least ideally) try to put together an AMA with public school teachers from a rural, a suburban, and an urban area, which brings me to the point of this post:

If you are a former teacher in one or several SWVA-based school districts, and you would be interested in taking questions from the internet about your experiences teaching, please let me know at this link:

https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/Virginia

If you know someone who would fit the bill, please send them my way! If it's something that they would need more information about I would be happy to provide it.

Hello all, I'm the founder (and currently sole moderator) of this subreddit. I'm making this post to encourage others to write in to modmail to request to be a moderator here.

Why moderate here?

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This subreddit mostly hosts local news articles, but as a general-purpose subreddit it is also open to any locally-focused post. If the idea of helping to maintain a space dedicated to that is appealing to you, please reach out at the link in the first section of this post!

What's involved in moderating?

The two most essential kinds of tasks of moderating, in this subreddit as in most others, are:

• Every so often checking the queue of reported posts and comments to review and action them as appropriate. If a post/comment isn't rulebreaking you approve it, and if it breaks a sitewide or subreddit rule you remove it (and if necessary, giving a temporary or untimed ban. Bans are most commonly given in for commercial and/or automated spam in this subreddit, but can also be given for more serious infractions like posting/commenting support for physical harm, promoting hate, doxxing, things like that.)
• Every so often checking 'modmail' to resolve open message threads (which are most commonly ban appeals).

This subreddit is pretty small and sleepy currently. Some stats on that:

• Over the last year, this subreddit had 165 posts published (8 of which were removed).
• Over the same time period, there have been a bit over 200 comments published (3 of which were removed).
• There has been one permabanned account over the sub's entire history.

There are other things you can do as a moderator if you want to go above and beyond such as facilitating AMAs and creating recurring threads.