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- From: Mary Appelhof <mappelho AT tds.net>
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- Subject: [compostteas] Announcement: Popular Worm Book to be translated to Russian
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:54:55 -0500
Title: Announcement: Popular Worm Book to be translated to Ru
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.
more
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.
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
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.
more
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
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
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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.
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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