Regenerative Baking #25: Don Guerra of Barrio Bread

About this episode

Don Guerra discusses his journey as a community-supported baker and his efforts to promote heritage grains in the Southwest.

Today’s guest is community-supported baker Don Guerra, founder of Barrio Bread in Tucson, Arizona. He won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker in 2022, and takes pride in bringing together a network of farmers, millers, wholesale buyers and consumers to support each other and build a resilient and diverse local grain chain. Listen in for an interview jam-packed with information about heritage grains of the Southwest, Don’s journey with entrepreneurship and history with anthropology, how he got connected with Native Seeds Search and became a major part of the effort to bring back Sonoran White Wheat, and much much more.

People in this episode

Host: Dressler Parsons

Guest: Don Guerra

Topics covered

• baking
• heritage grains
• local food systems
• entrepreneurship
• community support

Keywords

• Barrio Bread
• James Beard Award
• Sonoran White Wheat
• heritage grains
• local grain chain

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Barrio Bread, James Beard Award, Native Seeds Search

Products: Sonoran White Wheat

Places: Tucson, Arizona, Southwest

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