EARTH is a Scientific Programme of the European Science Foundation (Standing Committee for the Humanities). The EARTH network aims to provide a buffer between modern agriculture and European agricultural heritage. This requires interdisciplinary research and integration; in situ experimentation and conservation; and dissemination to a broad range of interest groups. The EARTH network crosses traditional institutional barriers, with cooperation between museums, research institutes and open-air demonstration and experimental centers. The principal partners of the EARTH network come from over 15 different countries in Europe and beyond, and cover a similarly broad range of research skills and expertise. Linked together by a shared database, we can examine contemporary issues of agricultural and technical heritage from archaeological, agronomic, ethnographic, and historical perspectives, and, just as importantly, integrate these different approaches. Such research is accompanied by the recording and reconstruction of traditional techniques, and the experimental planting of crops now considered non-commercial. Digital film and video recording of landscapes, tools, techniques and crops ensures the survival of these images and therefore the information they contain. This extends to the conservation of older decaying documents by means of digitisation. The conservation of tools and crop-processing locales and the experimental use of reconstructed tools or traditional methods draw attention to them and help to stimulate their re-adoption. None of this is of any use unless it is disseminated to interested academic, public and decision-making groups. Education, distribution of materials, and publication are important aims of the EARTH network. Information technology is crucial here, with images and data being made available in a user-friendly form on the Internet. Other proposed forms of publishing consist of children’s books, academic reports, popular books in relevant local languages, and the production of archive films.