The historic Homer Fitts department store building on Main Street in Barre is the new home of Vermont Salumi, a locally owned charcuterie company whose products are sold at various Vermont co-ops and specialty stores.

Owner Peter Colman started in 2011 with a line of fresh sausages made at Cate Farm in Plainfield; he's been producing Vermont Salumi's line of dry-cured salamis at Waitsfield's Mad River Food Hub since 2014. The new space, from which the business has been operating for six weeks, will allow him to increase production from 2,500 to 45,000 pounds of product at a time, he said.