Climate Change: Zhimin Zhang

"Respect nature, cooperate with nature, and live with self-discipline - I like to observe nature, listen to the melody of nature, and take my hard work as the chorus of it. Seeing that the abnormal and morbid ecology has restored biodiversity and formed a self-supporting ecosystem, my own health problems have been self-healing. When I plow the farmland, I often feel that nature is plowing my heart."

A solitary cultivator, contrarian, pioneer, practitioner, thinker and promoter, Zhimin Zhang is Director of Tianfuyuan, a biodiversity farm. Because of the health problems caused by food pollution 20 years ago, Zhang came to the countryside. There she found that the river was cut off and farmers could not farm without pesticides and fertilizers, with traditional farming culture forgotten. She felt a sense of crisis and mission. She gave up her international trade job and contracted 150 mu of land to explore a new way of farming.