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:

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

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Need seeds? We grow our seeds naturally in our permaculture food forest.

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If you’re starting a backyard garden, balcony garden, or full permaculture project:

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