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Regenerative Baking #25: Don Guerra of Barrio Bread

Regenerative Baking #25: Don Guerra of Barrio Bread4 Nov 202551 min

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.