Gion A. Caminada

“Sut Vitg” is the name of a site on the village margins, below Vrin’s church. Here, three new commercial buildings are located: two barns and a combined slaughterhouse and butcher’s shop. The latter is run on a novel commercial basis that allows the butcher to manufacture and market produce on his own account or in cooperation with farmers. This is a cooperative deal whereby farmers use the businessman’s equipment to process and store their sausages and other meat products, which they however sell on a local markets themselves. “A trade in hand finds gold in every land,” asserts the proverb. Yet in Vrin, a village too remote for any dairy to want to collect its milk — which is incidentally why the village had shifted to meat and cheese production (also from goats) — a micro-market based on local supply and demand needs this kind of cooperative support.