Living the natural way

She brings up her children 'as Mother Earth intended', and her firm conviction has turned her into a fervent advocate and the founder of Beijing's first gathering of organic, sustainable producers. She insists she is still a mother above all else, and she tells Sun Ye why.

Zhang Yinghui's 13-year-old elder son Marco has an unusual complaint. He wants to know why he has not gotten sick like the other children.

"Everybody else gets ill and takes time off school," he told his mother a few-years back.