[compostteas] Announcement: Popular Worm Book to be translated to Russian
Mary Appelhof
mappelho at tds.net
Fri Apr 2 14:54:55 EST 2004
For Release April 3, 2004
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA For further
info: see contact info below
Vladimir, Russia
Popular Worm Book to be translated to Russian
Mary Appelhof, author of the popular how-to book, Worms Eat My
Garbage, and Sergey S. Konin, General Director of Green-PIK,
Vladimir, Russia, are announcing a joint agreement today to pursue
translation of her book into Russian.
President of Flowerfield Enterprises/Flower Press of Kalamazoo, MI,
Ms. Appelhof says, "My mission is to change the way the world thinks
about garbage - to think of it as a resource. Russia is a very large
country - it spans 11 time zones - and Green-PIK is doing very
impressive work using earthworms to restore fertility of Russian
soils. I am pleased Green-PIK wants to carry their agricultural work
to the household level."
Mr. Konin says, "It is difficult to buy good books on earthworms and
vermiculture written by foreign authors in Russia. We believe that it
is necessary to translate the book by Mary Appelhof, Worms Eat My
Garbage, because we believe it will be very useful for ordinary
Russian farmers and gardeners. The book gives maximum of information
in simple language."
Flowerfield Enterprises, and its publishing arm, Flower Press,
develop and publish educational materials on worms and
vermicomposting. In addition to Worms Eat My Garbage (over 165,000
copies sold), Appelhof published a children's activity book now in
over 35,000 classrooms, the Wormania! video, a children's book
Compost, By Gosh! by Michelle Portman, and The Worm Café: Mid-Scale
Vermicomposting of Lunchroom Wastes by Binet Payne. Her website is
http://www.wormwoman.com , and she offers a free electronic
newsletter, the WormEzine from the site.
Address: Flowerfield Enterprises/Flower Press, 10332 Shaver Road,
Kalamazoo, MI 49024 USA, Tel: 269-327-0108, FAX 269-327-7009, cell
phone: 269-808-6688
Green-PIK recently sponsored an international Conference on
Earthworms and Soil Fertility in Vladimir, attended by 200
participants from 19 countries of the world. Papers were presented by
scientists and worm industry representatives from USA, China, South
Africa, Belarus, Ukraine, etc., and of course Russia.
Green-PIK was established in 1989 in Kovrov. It includes 22
enterprises. Mission: to produce products of excellent quality on the
basis of ecological husbandry. Capital stock of the business
combination PIK includes 5 million stocks belonging to 75,000
stockholders. Agricultural facilities are situated in Kovrov, Suzdal,
and Gus-Hrustalniy regions over the area of more than 46.000 hectares
(115,000 acres) of land.
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Green-PIK organizes based on their patent-pending technologies.
Providing guidance in vermitechnologies is a leading specialist and
Doctor of Medicine, Professor Igonin. The main purpose is to use the
technology of vermiculture for: 1) turning household and industrial
wastes into vermicompost and quality soil mixtures, 2) improve soil
fertility, achieve big crops, and obtain high-quality agricultural
products.
Website is www.green-pik.ru E-mail: green-pik at green-pik.ru,
ic_pic at port33.ru Address: 5/12, Green Prospect, Moscow +7 (095)
107-48-30
44, Purple boulevard, Moscow +7 (095) 463-41-36
36, Studenaya Gora str., Vladimir +7 (0922) 32-17-88
25, Pershutova str., Kovrov +7 (09232) 2-25-70
END
Background Information: 2nd Int'l Conference on Earthworms and Soil Fertility
The 2nd International Scientific Practical Conference Earthworms and
Soil Fertility was held in Vladimir (Russia) on March 17-19, 2004.
This conference, as well as the first one in November, 2002, was
organized and financed by a well-known corporation "PIK" with support
of Russian Academy of Agriculture, Vladimir Scientific Institute of
Investigations in Agriculture, Vladimir State Pedagogical University,
and Vladimir State University, Vladimir Region Administration and
Department of Agriculture.
More than 220 scientists and patricians from 19 countries of the
world as well as 26 regions of Russia participated in the Conference.
The main aim of the conference was to review world scientific and
production achievements, to introduce vermiculture technologies into
agricultural business for soil remediation and production of
ecologically clean products.
Before the conference the digest of the conference including 147
papers in Russian and English had been published. The full versions
of the papers are on an accompanying CD. The digest includes
abstracts of scientific and practical research works on the problem
of bioconversion or organic wastes with modern technologies of
composting and vermicomposting. The current problems in biology,
biochemistry, genetics and selection of earthworms and decomposers of
organic wastes are touched upon here. Most papers are devoted to
technologies of producing different organic fertilizers and humic
preparations, analyses of their peculiarities and usage for
increasing soil fertility and remediation, as well as producing
high-quality agricultural crops.
Participants of the conference stayed at the hotel Zarya and gave
presentations in the Taneev Concert Hall (500 seats). The conference
included plenary and poster sessions, a press conference,
presentation of the book Earthworms or how to increase soil fertility
by Professor Igonin (Russia) and the book, Worms Eat My Garbage, by
Mary Appelhof (USA). There also was a panel discussion and a field
trip to the biofarm Green-PIK (Kovrov).
One of the main aims of the conference was to create favorable
conditions for communication among specialists from different
countries of the world. This conference was a very significant event
for all the participants and it will be a powerful stimulus for
vermitechnology development in the future in many countries of the
world.
For further information:
Website is www.green-pik.ru E-mail: green-pik at green-pik.ru,
ic_pic at port33.ru Address: 5/12, Green Prospect, Moscow +7 (095)
107-48-30
44, Purple boulevard, Moscow +7 (095) 463-41-36
36, Studenaya Gora str., Vladimir +7 (0922) 32-17-88
25, Pershutova str., Kovrov +7 (09232) 2-25-70
END
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Mary Appelhof, Author of "Worms Eat My Garbage"
Flowerfield Enterprises,10332 Shaver Road,Kalamazoo, MI 49024 USA
PLEASE NOTE NEW AREA CODE: PH:269-327-0108 FAX 269-327-7009
"Changing the way the world thinks about garbage"
Subscribe to my WormEzine at: http://www.wormwoman.com or download
archives in PDF format.
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