Rotational Grazing in the Blue Ridge
John Fant, Colonel, US Army (Ret), returned to southwest Virginia in 2013 after a career in the military to resume the daily operations and management of the family farm. Watch this short video as John explains the challenges and opportunities he faced returning to the farm, assessing its resources then developing and implementing a plan that would make it profitable and sustainable while building healthy and productive soils in the process. John Fant participated as a farm demonstration cooperator as part of a VFGC Conservation Innovation Grant with USDA-NRCS.