CANADA
- The UKRAINIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE VILLAGE in Athabasca, Alberta is a provincially-operated site whose working farm uses draft animal power and heritage breeds and seeds (including several acres of Red Fife wheat, known to Ukrainian pioneer farmers as Chervona Vusata and a crucial ingredient in successful agribusiness hybrids).
- THE GRIST MILL AT KEREMEOS (Okanagan Valley, British Columbia): A restored, working, water-powered 1880s grist mill that sells its own heritage seeds and ground whole wheat. The active production at this site was a project of food activist Sharon Rempel, who has since gone on to more direct engagement in food relocalization efforts. (Rempel's "On-Farm Research Guide," available as a PDF on her website, emphasizes the biological and ecological rather than the cultural, but it does give a nod to some of the historical and agroecological aspects of growing wheat in western Canada.)
FRANCE
- Founded in 1993 but closed in 2010 due to lack of funding, the Agropolis Museum in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France aimed to document and study the history of the world's food and agricultures. The museum's website is still operative.
INDIA
- The LOST GARDENS OF KHAJURAHO (Madhya Pradesh): A hybrid tourism/organic farming/economic redevelopment effort spear-headed by Intach, the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, with support from a Belgian partner working on funding and research. The project aims to study and restore the working agricultural landscapes surrounding pre-colonial royal estates that once served both elites and pilgrims and that today are being reframed for both tourism and local food production.
ITALY
- Spannochia Foundation (Tuscany): A joint American/Italian project with a foot in New England, the foundation was formed in 2002 to support conservation, research, and education at an 1100-acre agricultural estate in central Tuscany. It incorporates farming, forestry, crafts, arts, farm-based education, and other activities.
