Grow Sorghum for Food Security 🌾 Easy Grain for Permaculture & Climate Resilience

Sorghum is one of the easiest and most resilient grains you can grow for food security. Perfect for permaculture food forests, sorghum thrives in heat, cold, drought, and even wet soils. 🌾 Grow Sorghum for Food Security & Abundance In this video, we show how we grow, harvest, store, thresh, and use sorghum in our permaculture food forest. Sorghum is one of the most resilient, productive, and versatile grains you can grow—perfect for permaculture gardens, food forests, and climate-resilient homesteads. Sorghum thrives in hot or cold climates, tolerates drought and wet soils, and can be used for erosion control, soil remediation, grain, and even sugar cane (with syrup sorghum). 🌱 In this video you’ll learn: - How to grow sorghum in diverse conditions (sun, shade, wet areas) - When sorghum is ready to harvest - How to get multiple harvests from one planting - Differences between syrup sorghum, broom corn, popping sorghum, and coral sorghum - How to thresh, winnow, store, and grind sorghum - How we use sorghum for bread, flour, porridge, pancakes, and baking - How sorghum supports food security and self-sufficiency Sorghum provides protein, fiber, and carbohydrates and can help reduce store-bought flour by up to 50%. It’s one of the easiest grains to grow and a powerful ally in building food security and abundance. ▶️ Watch our Sorghum & Sugar Cane playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDRPDy9wP0_kqKK-FfUTGvKEfg1vG4rgx&si=B3LojvKdIxK5upr7 Time Stamp Chapters 00:01 - Intro 01:50 - Growing sorghum and using it for soil remediation 04:46 - Identifying when sorghum is ready to harvest 06:04 - Harvest and initial drying of sorghum 06:08 - Williams Syrup Sorghum 06:11 - Pre-drying for hanging 06:19 - Coral sorghum (syrup sorghum) 06:28 - Broomcorn sorghum 06:33 - Popping sorghum 07:05 - Getting a 2nd harvest from your plants 08:24 - Initial processing in the field 09:23 - Getting at the sugar cane in the stem 10:44 - Tasting the sugar cane 17:43 - Threshing 18:59 - Storing the threshed grain 20:23 - Storing whole stems of sorghum to dry 24:34 - Winnowing 25:04 - Making flour 27:18 - Using sorghum flour 28:44 - Outro 29:23 - Closing music and scenes of nature 🌾 Get Sorghum Seeds & Support Our Work Need seeds? We grow our seeds naturally in our permaculture food forest. 👉 Order seeds here: https://www.willowsgreenpermaculture.com Supporting us through your purchases helps keep this educational content free and accessible. Thank you for being here — and as always, I read and respond to all of your comments and questions. 🌱 Gardening Coaching If you would like some help with your own garden, I now offer gardening coaching from 15 minutes to 1½ hours, by phone, WhatsApp, Zoom or Google Meet, and in person for those who are close enough, either here at WillowsGreen, or at your place. Find Coaching here: https://www.willowsgreenpermaculture.com/category/accompagnement 🌱 Seed Catalogue If you’d like to grow any of the varieties you see in our garden, you can explore our seed catalogue. We grow, dry and store all of the seeds in the catalogue right here at home. Every image you see on our website, in the catalogue, and on the seed packet labels comes directly from our gardens. 🌱 Visit our Seed Catalogue 👉 https://www.willowsgreenpermaculture.com 🌿 Consultations Thinking about starting a garden: on a balcony, in a backyard, at a school, or as part of a larger personal or community permaculture project? 📧 Email: apdehors@gmail.com Magali's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@racontemoilinvisible Magali's blog and podcasts: https://racontemoilinvisible.blogspot.com/ Support the Channel You can also support this channel by becoming a member. Membership helps keep the sharing of practical, grounded knowledge about growing food accessible to everyone. 😊 Just click the join button below the video: / @WillowsGreenPermaculture Thank you for being here — and for growing with us. 🌱 GARDENING TOOLS I RECOMMEND Kebtek Electric Pruning Shears I've tested the Kebtek KT940 and KT9035 battery-powered pruners, along with their telescopic extension pole. Kebtek link: https://shln.top/rOKEoy5T Get 10% off using my link. TIMBAR Pole Saw Attachment I've also tested the TIMBAR pole saw attachment and shared a complete demonstration and review on our channel. TIMBAR affiliate link: https://timbartools.com/pages/timbar-launch?ref=STEFANDIXON Get 10% off using my link. Disclosure: I may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links, at no additional cost to you. These products were originally provided for review. I only recommend tools I've used and am satisfied with.