Heidi Kühn, who was diagnosed with rare childhood neck cancer at the age of 30, has faced significant changes in her life since then. She is a mother of three children and battled cancer to give birth to her fourth child. Subsequently, her perspective on life underwent profound transformations.

Heidi Kühn stating, "I realized we should replace mines with vineyards and fruit orchards in many countries around the world." She recalled the phrase "From mines to grapes" during her hosting of an event at our Marin County home, attended by those who survived mines a few weeks after the tragic death of Princess Diana, Ednews reports citing "Forbes" magazine.

"Francis Ford Coppola had donated some wine from Inglenook, and other friends from the wine industry were there. Our initial project was to clean mines in war-torn Croatia and plant new grapevines. It was then that her non-profit organization, 'Roots of Peace,' was born."

Today, her organization has cleared millions of mines from war zones worldwide and replaced them with vineyards, table grapes, orchards, and medicinal trees.

For her courageous efforts, Heidi Kühn was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Umud Mirzayev, President of the International Eurasia Press Fund (İEPF), during the International Eurasia Press Fund (İEPF) conference on mine clearance in Baku, Azerbaijan.

"It would have been appropriate to announce this in Baku. Because Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, actually lived there for a while," Heidi Kühn said.

"In addition, we are currently working on a project to clear mines in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and replace them with vineyards."

Heidi Kühn emphasized that despite the 41-day war between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 2020, there is still a need to remove 1.5 million mines for the re-planting of vineyards and orchards in the area.