Granai della Memoria

 Alessandro Moschietto, owner of a farm in Piedmont, has been interviewed for the Granaries of Memory in 2014. During the interview, Alessandro talks about his farm, established in 2008 at the age of 19, where he breeds cattle of Piemontese and Valdostana race, and crosses of the two. Cattle are fed with hay, maize and barley flour from Giaveno, where the farm is located, and Coazze, in the surrounding area; the slaughter happens before the first year of life and then the meat is sold in the shop of the farm. Moschietto has also started a partnership with the salami factory Val Sangone in Coazze, in order to produce a raw salami called Rudun, which is made of meat, aged for 8-9 days, from old and unproductive cows. In the interview he also talks about Val Sangone, which has always been a suitable place for this kind of activities, but in the last decades small and “domestic” farm disappeared while big and industrialized ones grew. During this process, overbuilding has luckily spared alpine areas, which are still rich of extended grazing lands, but for a young entrepreneur, such as Moschietto himself, starting a new activity like this it is really demanding and impeded by bureaucracy. In the last part of the interview, Alessandro narrates the history of the red tractor in the video, bought at the beginnings of his activity, which is more than 60 years old and still working perfectly.