Kazumi Fujimura has not only sworn off meat and alcohol but also many of life's luxuries.

Fujimura, 38, lives about 50 km south of Kuala Lumpur, deep in the bucolic town of Bangi, and, together with her Malaysian-Chinese husband, Gan Koon Chai, 41, runs the 4-hectare GK Organic Farm.

But Fujimura's story is not that of a dutiful wife simply following her husband. It is instead a tale of a woman who tries to shape her own destiny and lives life as she wants.