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.
Links:
SNAP Shutdown | Why cash helps food banks
SARE Grants | USDA-NIFA Grants | Project 2025 Tracker | Project 2025’s goal to “remove the U.S. from…sustainable-development schemes connected to food production”
Green Revolution paper | “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature” by Janine M. Benyus, page 26
Michel Suas | Thom Leonard | Dan Leader | ACME Bread
Barrio Grains | BreadLessons.com
San Xavier Mission rehabilitation effort
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