Biointensive for Russia is a people-to-people agroecology project, fiscally sponsored by Ecology Action (see www.growbiointensive.org). We promote Grow Biointensive sustainable mini-farming (GB) through publications and workshops hosted by environmental groups and agricultural colleges in Russian-speaking Eurasia. We have also supported mini-farming experiments conducted by our partner organizations the NGO VIOLA and the Grassroots Alliance PERESVET (Bryansk, Russia) -- in and near Russia's Chernobyl radiation zone, as well as by the Alive Earth Center in St. Petersburg, and Ecodom, Inc. in Novosibirsk, in past decades.

The publication of the third edition in 2016 of "Kak vyraschivat' bol'she ovoschei...,” our Russian translation of the classic How to Grow More Vegetables... by John Jeavons, originally inspired serious efforts to train schoolteachers in three northern provinces of Russia, which are featured on this, our second website.

Dr. Ludmila Zhirina recruited a strong team to teach there, then moved on to other regions of western Russia, including her home base of Bryansk province, which is still affected by radiation from nearby Chernobyl. The focus of our work is to provide books for as many teachers attending these trainings as possible, and also to support the travel, communications, and printing work involved. You are welcome to join us in supporting these endeavors!