[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

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  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
-- 
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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