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Don Guerra said he plans to bake as many as 300 loaves of each week from the bakery space at ‘ new facility at 932 N. Colorado St. in Gilbert. Customers will order the bread and pick it up on Tuesdays.

“It’s a chance for me to have a presence in the Phoenix market even if it’s a limited basis,� said Guerra, who grew up in Scottsdale. “It’s my hometown ... and I really would love to come back home and have an offering in the valley even if it was just one day a week. I’m starting very small to plant the seed and watch it grow.�

Guerra has been working with Hayden Flour Mills since the father-daughter owners Jeff and Emma Zimmerman resurrected the historic Tempe mill in 2009, the same year that Guerra launched Barrio Bread from his ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ garage. Guerra has championed the use of heritage and ancient grains for all of his baked goods, including his new line of bagels that he introduced in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ in late June.

Hayden Flour Mills, whose history dates back to the 1870s, recently moved into a new facility in Gilbert with a bakery space that they offered to Guerra, Emma Zimmerman said.

“I’m still just so shocked that he said yes,� she said of the partnership, which has been 18 months in the making. “We are really excited. He’s always been a friend and supporter of what we do, but to kind of do something a little bigger with him. I am so curious how Phoenix responds.�

Guerra insisted he has no plans to leave the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ market, which has embraced his Barrio Bread and his restaurant projects with El Charro’s Flores family: The Monica at 40 E. Congress St. and Barrio Charro at 3699 N. Campbell Ave. “My base will always be in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. This is just an opportunity to kind of reach out to the Phoenix area. There’s been a lot of interest; people have been asking for years if I was going to have bread there.â€�

Guerra recently got his business license from the town of Gilbert, and the oven he ordered from Italy has arrived in the United States; it still needs to be shipped from Ohio. he said.

Barrio Bread Gilbert will return Guerra to his ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ garage roots, when he worked alone producing dozens upon dozens of loaves of bread each day that he sold from his home. Guerra these days does little hands-on baking at Barrio’s Broadway Village Shopping Center bakery, 18 S. Eastbourne Ave., leaving it up to his experienced staff.

“At this bakery I will be hands on,� said Guerra, who launched his baking career in 1995 with the Village Baker of Flagstaff. “This is kind of like for me going back to what I used to do in the garage, a one-person bake team. I rehearsed it and I’m going to go back and do it.�

The satellite bakery also is next door to ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Wilderness Brewing Company, which follows Guerra’s grains philosophy. The brewery is collaborating with Guerra on a new beer that is expected to be released in September.

In addition to Barrio Bread, the Gilbert bakery also will sell Barrio Bagels. The bagels, a collaboration between Guerra and Neal Borenstein’s popular Phoenix bagel bakery Chompie’s, will be baked in Phoenix and shipped to the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ bakery. They should be available here this month.

“This is really about another community bakery investment and collaborating with the people involved in my grain chain,� Guerra said.

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