Gift Course: How to Bake Whole Grain Sourdough Bread

Give this course as a gift!

Do you have a friend or loved one that is a baker? Give them the opportunity to learn from Don Guerra, internationally acclaimed baker, educator, and founder/owner of Barrio Bread. In this course, they will learn how to bake a delicious loaf of whole grain sourdough bread from scratch. Over the course of eight short videos, Don teaches the recipient of your gift everything they need to know to bake artisanal, naturally leavened bread in their home oven.

The steps for giving this course as a gift
(just some fair warning, as it's not the most straightforward)

  1. You purchase this gift course.
  2. Once you pay, you'll enter into the curriculum for the "gift course".
  3. Click the first lecture to access a form where you'll tell us who the lucky gift recipient is and how you want us to send the gift course coupon to them. You'll have the choice to send the coupon yourself or have us do it for you.
  4. Once you fill out the form, we'll send the coupon within 24 hours.


Your Instructor


Don Guerra
Don Guerra

Don Guerra is a James Beard Award-winning community supported baker from Tucson, Arizona. He founded Barrio Bread in 2009 and slowly built a dedicated clientele by baking hundreds of loaves a week in an oven installed in his garage. He operated this way for seven years, selling at farmers' markets, schools, and community drop-off points around Tucson before opening a retail bakery in 2016.

Don is an internationally recognized baker, educator, and advocate for local food systems and the production and preservation of heritage grains. He has become an integral part of a collaboration between farmers, millers, bakers, and seed savers working to bring native and heritage grains back to southern Arizona farms and tables. As farmers have learned how to grow heritage grains and millers learned how to process it, Guerra has had to figure out how to make bread from that which is harvested locally.

He spends 70 hours a week baking bread with his team of bakers. His process is slow—the life cycle of a loaf is 24 hours—but his work is quick. He mixes flour into dough, shapes dough into loaf, bakes loaf into bread—time after time, 4,000 loaves a week. As Edible Baja Magazine wrote, "Barrio Bread’s Don Guerra does more than bake slow-fermented, heritage-grain artisan breads — he also cultivates belongingness.”

Don also loves to share his passion for bread and bread baking with others who want to learn. Join him for this course and learn from one of the best bakers around!



Course Curriculum


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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - the recipient of your gift will decide when to start and when to finish.
How long does your gift recipient have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, your gift recipient will have unlimited access to this course for as long as they like - across any and all devices they own.

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