Don't disregard sorghum, it has sugar cane type stems for eating or juicing and also excellent large white seeds that are easily threshed and cleaned, and that pop just like pop corn. It is gluten and lectin free and can be cooked as a seed, ground into flour and is full of antioxidants. Black sorghum is an excellent multi-functional crop. You can eat the seeds and use the stalks as a sweetener. The seeds can be threshed out and cooked in similar ways to quinoa and amaranth. The dried seed heads make attractive foliage for fresh and dried flower arrangements. The root system of Sorghum is huge making it an excellent soil conditioner and aerator for heavy clay, helping to break up the soil and bring carbon into the soil.
I recently learned you can grind the stalks of Sunflowers into a very fine flour, and apparently very nice it is too, using the dried, white, inner pith..sunflower seeds too make a good grinder
Using the inside of sunflower stalks is making the rounds once again. The problem is that inner part of the stalk is 100% cellulous. While you can dry it very quickly and toss it in the food processor to pulverize to a flour consistency there is zero nutritional value and zero energy value. Some people claim there is a slightly nutty flavor but I'm not sure whether those statements are made from personal taste tests or just passing on what someone else has said. Throughout centuries bakers have tried to find ingredients to "stretch" flour. In the 70s here in America they came out with this new bread that had significantly less calories than regular bread and it was selling off the shelves like crazy. It didn't taste exactly the same but it was close enough. That is until everyone was let in on why the calories were so low. They were using cellulose in the form of very finely ground sawdust.😂😂😂😂 Because I hate to see something like that go to waste I decided t would put the stalks through my chipper to be used as bedding in the chicken coop this winter. Excellent Insulation value.
I also saw a video about making sunflower flour from the inside of the stalk, but the channel that made the video followed up and said that they found it wouldn't rise at all when they baked with it, and even when they mixed it 50/50 with other flour it only worked okay. They were able to use it to thicken soups/gravies though. I was bummed to learn this as I was so excited to try it out!
I learned from Purposeful Pantry (RU-vid channel) on dehydrating zucchini and other squash and making flours from that, can branch out to other veg as well to mix in with your homegrown grains and seeds. I grew Buckwheat, Amaranth, Curly Dock and Chia this year. My chia hasnt bloomed yet. Amaranth is ready to winnow and my buckwheat and Dock are ready to grind.
I’ve only just discovered lentils can make flatbread. Simplest recipe ever. Soaked lentils water and salt bland to make a batter similar to pancake batter. Cook on a dry or barely oiled cast iron or nonstick pan or griddle. So flavorful and nice texture that is very versatile.
I recently ground strawberry popcorn to make cornbread. Handy to have a short season corn to make into flour. The youtube channel City prepping has a good video on using the inside of sunflower stalks as flower as well as the seeds
green banana or plantain makes great flour, as does potato and sweet potato, cassava too! (all starches really) but depending on your climate you should be able to grow one of these. potato (most climates), others (subtropical-tropical ideally)
You can make potato, sweet potato and yams as flour you just need a dehydrator and blender or if you don't have a blender you can use a hand coffee grinder it will just take longer
I have yet to be growing any of which you spoke of. However your podcast gave me just what I was looking for. Im sure there will be a few plants growing in my yard soon Thank You!!!
I have Celiac so this was very interesting for me. Not something we can grow but coconut flour is very useful for gluten free folks. I make a three minute microwave bread. And it's great for making fishcakes and patties. It's basically 1 egg, 1/4 cup flour as the base, then you add whatever you like to make your patties, fritters etc. Coconut flour is dead cheap and stores for ages. And a little goes a long long way.
Thank you so much! I am loving your channel! I just found it tonight. We are moving to a place with a bit of land this year and I'm so excited to learn to garden and grow food... and have a bunny colony. You do literally everything I have my heart set on! You're channel is perfect! Now I just need a cup of coffee and a bottle of milk, and me and my little 1 year old plan to watch some videos while she claps and waves at the bunnies and points to the food "mama yum", and I take notes! Thanks again! p.s. if you grow anything you thresh or ground feel free to teach a video on it! :)
Loved growing pink buckwheat but need to pick and process soon I cook with rice flour usually Theres a learning curve of changing the recipes but its good once you learn how
Hello, I live where its cold and have poor clay rocky soil. I have tried to grow quinoa and amaranth and neither of them came up. I also grow sunflowers which can be used for flour. I will try the quinoa and amaranth again next year. Thank you for making this video
Her, about buckwheat: It's not a grain, it's actually a seed. Me: I mean...I know what you meant, but that doesn't disqualify it from being a grain. Just sayin'...XD
Can whole chickpeas from the store be used as seed or have they been treated in some way? Same with any other of the grains or seeds you mentioned.... can they be bought in the grocery store and used as seed. Thank you for your video.
LMAO....ma'am, amaranth is a weed here. I mean that it takes over lawns here on no time. I don't know of any house it doesn't pop up in. Though just finding out i now have 2 acres of wild food that i usually mow down and never water
But that just means it's easy to grow in your area! Harvesting it's seeds for flour would help control it's spread (help, not necessarily totally control). That would make it a good survival food for you!
I have a family friend with one of these: www.grainmills.co.nz/products/copy-of-cerealo-200-electric-flour-mill And she loves it. I know that flour-power-mills.co.nz/ stock KOMO which are popular too, but they seem to have delays with getting stock at the moment. You might be able to find one second hand on trademe too
