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OUR FORMER MEDIATOR |
Mr. Lon Ball, Genny, Nate, Natalia and the rest of their family
That family business FORMERLY was our mediator in sales of Russian herbs through their company Klickitat Organics. KO was a family operation with Lon's daughter Genny and son Nate Johnson joined the farm. Natalia, Mr. Lon Ball's wife, and he have been working together in Asia since 1997 and seemingly planned to maintain an office in her native city Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. KeyHerbs.com had to stop ANY cooperation with them ALL and currently is looking for a new HONEST partner in the U.S. or Canada, because it doesn't look reasonable for us to lose the huge amount of time and efforts invested into this herbal project from our end. Besides of all, Mr. Ball sais that he is quitting his herbal business.
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SPIRITUAL GUIDES |
Valerie Assinewe
Valerie Assinewe, who was mentored, by Thor, had been awarded her Doctorate and inspired KO with the vital energy of the gracious Menominee and Ojibwa spiritual guides. She was collaborating with us at KO, bringing her insights of aboriginal botany alloyed with her science perspective.
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ABORIGINAL |
Andrei Passar
This is an ongoing project that is a loving labour with our aboriginal informant, Andrei Passar, who is a Nanai ‘ethnic minority’ shaman in Khabarovsk Krai, habitat of Amur tiger as well as most of the recognized adaptogenic plants. Andrei, in failing health, is 83 years old in a country with a life expectancy rate of 53 for men.
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INTERNATIONAL |
Andrei Mogeiko
We explored methods to compensate for native peoples proprietary plant knowledge. The solution was provided by our project coordinator, Andrei Mogeiko, who is also The Volunteer International Contacts Manager of a cooperative gallery of native and local culture arts and crafts.
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CONSERVATION |
Oregon Tilth, Federal and State Forestry, WCS, etc.
For conservation issues we can use a multi task tack using both Oregon Tilth (that already had an experience of certification of over 2 million ha of Taiga [boreal forest] in the Russian Far East) and the federal and state forestry administration that may cooperate with us in the Forest Service management. Both programs are excellent managers and conservators. We also can work with Dale Miquelle of the World Conservation Society for cooperative community development in non timber forest products, NTFP, to aid them in their efforts to save the Amur (Siberian) tiger.
Russian sourcing of licensed botanicals is extremely important to help break the poaching cycles for all wildlife. Together with our new partners, we can collaborate with WCS in this critical work.
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UNIVERSITY |
Tatiana Alexsevna Stepanova
We have had the pleasure of working with Tatiana Alexsevna Stepanova, PhD, head of the Dept. of Pharmacognosy and Botany, Far East Medical University. We have developed a good relationship with her because of her academic intimacy with the native medicinal flora. She is our academic liaison and we can make her published, translated papers and consultation available to you and your clients that have not yet been published on PubMed or Medline. Parenthetically, Dr. Stepanova's father was a pharmacognosist and her husband's father, Nikolai K. Fruentov, PhD, is a pharmacognosist who worked closely with Dr. Israel Brekhmann during the time of his many clinical trials on the adaptogens.
Dr. Stepanova is now helping us to review the ethnobotanical literature to compliment the information we are able to glean from our Nanai healer, Andrei Passar and other native healers.
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