$23.6 FORESTRY

That’s how much the regenerative cycle of forestry activities produces for Virginia’s economy. See related article on page 16.

Sheep shearing requires special skills, on Real Virginia

Featured this month on Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program:

• Watch the ancient art of sheep shearing, and find out how farmers cut or shave wool off sheep efficiently and quickly.

• Learn why the Lenten rose is not a rose—it’s actually a perennial hybrid hellebore and is part of the buttercup family.

• Virginia’s Reforestation of Timberlands Program has been helping sustain Virginia’s forests for 50 years.

Real Virginia airs nationwide at 3:30 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month on RFD-TV on Dish Network and DirecTV, and on selected cable outlets around the state. It airs weekly on WBRA digital channel 15.2, WHRO Norfolk, WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk, and on the first and third weekends of each month on WVIR Charlottesville, WHSV Harrisonburg, WSLS Roanoke and WRLH Richmond.