Hang them in the garage/shed/basement/back porch for a couple weeks to complete drying. The seads will shatter out of the heads much easier without all that rubbing.

It was so cool watching you blow that chaf away, I was like yes!!!

Just use a hairdryer and gently blow over the bowl with the seeds and chaff. You can process a pound of seeds in 10 minutes this way. After this step I also rinse the seeds in a strainer with a shower stream (use a small drop of soap to wash the dirt out). Then dry clean seeds for a few days on a flat surface before storing.

I appreciate this video and time you took. I’ve been a little confused on what the grain was versus the seed. I’ve never planted amaranth but it’s grows wild in my back yard for a few years now. So beautiful

pro tip, if you take out the silver tray, and jsut scoop it up and let it drop like 12inches like a waterfall, you can blow out the chaff while the grains fall straight down

🐝 Thanks for the great video 🌻

We grew amaranth for the first time this year. We did the red spinach amaranth which sounds and looks like what you all had. I’ve just harvested the flower heads and am looking at how everyone did theirs. Enjoyed your video and all the tips!! I wish we would have harvested leaves but I didn’t for fear it would interfere with the flower head production. Sounds like that’s not the case so awesome news! Thank you for the video! 😊❤

Most interesting watching you harvest and process your A. seeds. This pseudocereal is special to me as I've grown A. cruentus and A.hypocondriacus for many years. It's part therapy and part ' tradition' growing this plant that gives so much and demands so little. Our central Fl storms and spring winds can be problematic so I mound up the tall plants with dirt. to help minimize them from falling over. Nice to see your four legged companion in on this presentation! Thanks again!

Good video. You just answered all of the questions I had about amarynth. You also speak well and the video editing was very professional.

I am planting some Amaranth for the first time this year but after watching this video makes me realize I might not have planted enough. This was a good video on how to divide the grain from the plant. I think I"ll use a blow dryer on low to blow the chaff off though. Great video.

Hi great video, so glad I found your channel!

Great video, thanks for sharing. I'm about to harvest my tree

O my goodness I grew so much of raspberry, lime and salmon coloured this year about 10 times your amount and couldn’t find a good method til yours. Thanks so much. May take me a couple full days. Then figure out what to do with it, lol 🌟👍🏻♥️🇨🇦

WoW

There are plans for a seed cleaner out there. You can link to it from another KZfaq Amaranth harvesting video. I'm sorry I didn't write down the source video. A quick search of vids should yield the right one though. It looks like it would be a great help.

Wow, that is a lot of work! I planted amaranths for their beauty mostly. I will begin to prep and eat the grains, maybe. Thanks for showing!

Wonderful🤩

Thank you

​ @HeavenlyAcresFarm A fan works great to avoid the heat of a hairdryer, and try winnowing the seeds. Also, if you leave the seeds to dry before starting this process, many will fall out on their own. Just make sure to have a container or tarp underneath them to catch them. You can probably start the winnowing process much earlier, as even the larger pieces of chaf should fly away when tossed in the air with a breeze. I understand what a time consuming process this is, I've been there with other seeds. Any way to make the process quicker is super helpful. Cheers!

I wonder if you could put it in something like an ice cream bucket with a few golf balls and shake it around. Anyone tey something like that? I'm going to he giving it a go this year! Amaranth and sorghum 😊😊

Awesome!!!!!!!

Can they be threshed without damaging the seeds?

Wow, not sure I have the time to harvest my amaranth like that. I just put my flowers in the dehydrator. We’ll see how that works out.

The good is left behind.

Try using a large gold pan with riffles for your winnowing.

This is really great information. New sub.

Thanks for the video. Watching this, I'm really curious how much amaranth grew in your lawn last year from winning there.

Do you ever grind it into a flour to use in cooking/baking or do you just eat the seeds?

This was a great video, very helpful. Thank you for doing it. I have two questions if you have time to answer them. 1. I was thinking about NOT removing the fine bits of chaff from our harvest. I'm thinking it's extra fiber, the color maybe has some of those great vitamins in there... maybe? And also, it'd look cool with little red specs in the bread we put it into. Do you see any downsides of that as long as the chaff is dried out as thoroughly as the grain itself? 2. We might have harvested as many beetles and spiders out of our amaranth this season as we did grains. I have it out in a tray outside overnight right now - hoping that most of them will scamper away. I guess I could leave them in and... bake the grain so they're not alive anymore, and then they'd be extra protein. But that's sort of cruel to the bugs (being baked alive) and also ICK - gross. Do you have any tips for removing the bugs aside from simple sifting? Again, AWESOME VIDEO. Thank you!

Wow, that sure was a lot of work for the seeds! Love the color of the flower/ seed pods!! I have the multicolored variety on the way! Excited to grow the for the first time. How do you use the seeds in food?

Has anyone tried putting a flower head in a drill to spin the seeds out?

Thank you, how did you get rid of some of the very small bugs?

Can I use an Hair drier far away so the blow is gentle enough? And could you write all the procedures so we do not need to see the whole long video? Thank you!

Can we use the amaranth grains for plating,?

The music works well.

I was using a frisbee, but yeah, a pizza pan. Brilliant.

I’ve read in multiple places that all amaranth is edible but I can’t find any discussions about which ones taste best. You mention that some kinds are inedible. I know that you shouldn’t eat them if they were growing in a heavily fertilized field, such as a commercial corn or wheat field that has been drenched with chemical fertilizer, but have never heard of any inedible varieties. Do you know which ones those are?

Loved this video. Background music is nice but too loud for me.

What variety is this amaranth that you grew?

Are there no seeds that are red? Are they just tan or black?

My red aramarnth seeds are black

Oh no. I stayed to the very end to see how much seeds can be recovered from that many heads. Did you get one bottle?

What state are you growing in?

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After all that and you don't show the total amount you were able to harvest?

Annoying background music for us oldies

Wish you would've showed how you use the grain, perhaps next time.

I raise dobermans! Send me an email if you want so we can talk puppies. Do you show or anything? Your boy looks like he has a nice crop.