BOLIVIA. Alberta Colony. 2002. Cheese that was made in the kitchen sits on the table before sporadic delivery into the town of Santa Cruz, which is several hours away. The new Alberta Colony was established in 1997 by 40 Mennonite families from western Canada who bought 10,000 hectares of land in Bolivia for half a million dollars. They came to resist secular culture and modernism. Today, only 18 families remain in Alberta Colony. Most of the others have returned to Canada rather than suffer malnutrition.