Millet is an amazing supergrain! It is in fact closely related to sorghum, as some types of sorghum are called Great Millet. Millet is very easy to grow, to harvest, to thresh, to use whole, and to make into flour. It can easily replace half of your all purpose wheat flour! There is no need to winnow millet when you thresh it, as it is almost all pure grain and no chaffe!
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Millet gives you lots of grain from a small space in your garden. It is an extremely nutritious grain as well. Millet is high in dietary fiber and protein compared to other grains, and is gluten free. It contains magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, phosphorus, thiamine, niacin, riboflavin, anti-oxidants and tryptophan. It is, of course, packed with carbohydrates to give you lots of energy! Millet is also low on the glycemic index scale!
Come join and watch as Magali and I harvest and process our millet, and as I thresh the seedheads and make the whole millet grain into flour! Find out some ways you can use it, and stay tuned to our video next week, in which we will be making bread and pizza dough with our millet and amaranth flour. See also how beautiful millet can look in the garden and also as a bouquet in the house, while you store it and wait thresh and process it to eat it!
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Time Stamp Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:31 Growing millet
1:24 Harvesting millet
2:18 Storing dried millet plants
2:22 Threshing millet is easy
3:52 What you can do with your millet
4:22 Virtually no chaffe – no need to winnow
4:24 Fortifying your diet with a variety of grains to get all of the vitamins, minerals, good fat & protein you need
4:49 Tasting raw whole millet
5:15 Making flour from millet
5:56 Storing the millet flour after making it
7:51 Keeping seed for replanting
8:19 An even easier and more efficient way to thresh
9:55 Preparing the flour for long term storage
10:38 Millet gives you lots of grain from a small space in your garden
11:06 Preview of next video: Making millet and amaranth bread and millet pizza dough
11:17 Outro
12:04 Sorting & processing the harvest, outdoors on a beautiful autumn day
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