Want bread? True organic, artisan bread? We offer bread shares from Barrio Bread Company, a locally grown company with a true passion for artisan bread making. Barrio Bread specializes in naturally leavened artisan organic breads. It uses ancient sourdough techniques and locally harvested wild yeast to produce high quality organic breads, while using only the simplest of ingredients. The slow fermentation process combined with hearth baking creates a truly unique and delicious bread. The bread is made from unbleached, un-bromated organic flours and contains no sugars, oils, or preservatives.
Barrio Bread was founded by Don Guerra, who brings more than 20 years of artisan baking experience to his craft. He is a passionate baker who is committed to producing Tucson’s finest bread. The following bread varieties are available:
- Pain au Levain: A naturally leavened bread made with unbleached flour, stone ground wheat and rye. It has a complex structure with many irregular holes in the interior and an incredibly crispy crust.
- Peasant Levain: This bread is naturally leavened with a sourdough culture (levain) and has equal percentages of rye, whole wheat and bread flour. It has a gentle rye flavor and mild acidity.
- Rustic Nine-Grain: A whole wheat bread naturally leavened with a sourdough culture (levain) with a variety of grains folded into the dough.
A bread share consists of one loaf every week at $4.50 a loaf. We offer 2 types of bread shares:
1. All Varieties Rotation: rotate through all three varieties in succession, and
2. Whole Wheat Rotation: rotate through Peasant Levain and Rustic Nine-Grain in succession
Extra bread for sale: Don bakes his bread in batches of 30. He makes enough batches to cover the number of bread shares required each week. Whenever the number of bread shares is other than a multiple of 30, there will be some extra loaves. These are available for sale on a first-come, first-served basis. The number of these extra loaves varies, and we usually sell out before the end of the day. So, if you want to be sure to get bread, it’s best to subscribe to a bread share.
Trading bread: on any given pickup day members can trade their bread share with any other type of bread available for sale.
Add a bread share for one week only: you can add one or more bread shares to your existing subscription for your next pickup. For more info, see Help: Change Your Subscription.
What if you forget to, or can’t pick up your bread share? We will attempt to freeze it so you can pick it up on another day. However, since we have limited freezer capacity, we cannot always do that. On the rare occasions when have no freezer space to store your bread, it is donated to charity.