The post of us showing what we made with it is now up on our Instagram at instagram.com/lovinofftheland

Before you remkve the center for flour, peel them. Then scoop and chop the stalk to eat. Use like celery, tastes about the same. The leaves are edible, cook like greens. Try for younger leaves. Plants are amazing

For what to do with the outer stalk fibres, check out Sally Pointer's historical rope & textile making youtube videos - sunflower stems could make very long rope, twine, or thread fibres if you stripped it off before cutting the stems down into sections.

You can make sunflower seed flour too... and get oil from the seeds also...

Great job! Gonna definitely try this I live in the desert and process the dry mesquite pods for flour so this is useful to me since I always grow sunflowers like mesquite flour I believe that a ratio of one part mesquite or sunflower flour to 2 parts corn flour will work for baking just about everything Have a Blessed day

Maybe another use for the outer dry stalks (similar to what is done with sugar cane): let them dry and use them in any fire you might need (wood stove, heating, etc). Best if you use them mixed with the regular wood.

I love your your whole homestead life your surrounding area is gorgeous! But I would love more info on the type of grinder you used for the flour and thanks for the video!

The stalks make excellent fire starters, the outer fiber is very strong. I agree, follow Sally Pointer for tips on processing. If you are looking for insulative materials, these are amazing because of their airpockets. I am harvesting the inner pith now for food. I am finding the soft, green flesh is easier to cut out then the dried, white.

you can do the same thing with sun choke stalks and actually the whole plant too...... great video, thx for making it!

Former Kansan, checking in, sunflower is the state flower. This is cool!!! I love sunflowers!!!

I've been researching this topic for quite some time and hae discovered that sunflower flour is 100% cellulose, which is indigestable by people (non-ruminants) ... it just goes right thru the system with zero calories and no nutrition. It also causes gas, bloating and other GI upset. My question is are you still using it and did you find it to be helpful? I can see it as an extender for bread in a very serious long term grid down situation but not for the day to day. Are you using it still? Thanks for any info you have.

Nature gives us so much of blessing. Thanks for sharing this

That's so creative!

I bet if you mixed zucchini flour with the sunflower stalk flour it would be really good.

For those of us without an instagram account, how did it taste?

Fascinating!!! Never thought about eating the stalk!!

Great information right here! Thanks!

Lovely experience

I can't wait to see what you use it for. I have so many and I hope to use them! :)

Superb!

Love ur ideas👍

I would save some seed heads for winter too.

Great Idea I will try it one day

Absolutely adore sunflowers! Just discovered your channel. Thank you for this wonderful tutorial ♡♡

I look forwards to finding out what it's like to eat. Another possible tool for scooping out the core is one of those lttle hook knives used for carving spoon. Or a miniature version of those avocado or coconut scoop tools. You could make one with a narrow strip of metal, sharpened a bit on one edge and both ends pinned to the end of a stick. The leftover stalk would probably make good kindling or as fuel for a camping woodgas stove.

Keep sharing such awesome videos .

You share such positivity guys I'm glad to be your subscriber and see every video posted by you 🥰

Wow Wud love to try it out myself

I only have three sunflowers but I am going to try this for sure. I love what you guys are doing I am trying to be as self sufficient as I can. I live in Calgary so can't grow outside in the winter but I do have grow lights that I can use to at least try spinach and other assorted greens. Can't wait to see what you guys do with the flour good luck.

Y'all make a good team. Thank you for the video.

Love sunflower. And now loving what you can actually get from it.

Way to go on growing those sunflower. They look awesome!

You are very hardworking and creative 👍

Always look fwd for ur informative videos

You have to plant some beets for the sugar intake. They make good crisps too :D

You can also eat the leaves as greens.

I'm thinking a curved knife that farriers use to trim horse hooves would work great for getting the centers out of the stalks.

Ur content is amazing

Thanks for all the resourceful info , ...dont forget that the flower heads can be roasted in olive oil or butter and taste like artichoke hearts , dont skimp on the garlic!!

Awesome I might try this! We planted about 20 sunflowers this year 💚🌻

I remember those spoons

You can take all the petals off the young heads and rub with some oil or grease over the young seeds then add some salt and spices and bake them in an over or grill them on a BBQ

dried sunflower stocks make great kindeling

An apple coring tool would work great.

This is awesome! Would love to see how to cook with it.

Did you use the flour to bake bread? Maybe 50/50 ratio?

A piece of 3/4''' Conduit sharpened on one end like a round knife would work great for that, maybe sharpen both ends and elongate one end for the narrow pcs.

Sunflower flour havent heard of that. Great to know!

Cool! I'll be growing lots of sunflowers this year. I've heard that one can make a flour from dried zucchini as well.

I tried removing the insides of my sunflower stalks a few weeks ago. It was not worth the time. Next time I will try using that tool.

This is crazy! I’m so trying this 😁 please upload a video using it!

Cool stuff man I'm really glad you found a different tool for that. Also enjoyed because it's so easy to imagine me as you with my property and my chick someday good for you man awesome home adventure! That flour is a lot of work though...

Love what you all are doing on this channel. My top 5 of the subscribes that I have. What kind of grinder do you all use?

A new sub here, this is the 1st video i have watched, looked for the one on using the sunflower stalk flour but didn't see one

Very cool! What is the machine you are using to grind it?

Awww man y'all should have tried grilled sunflower heads so amazing.

Is this for all sunflower varieties (grown for flower or seed varieties)? Would a dehydrator be fine if you have one?

Yes, the vase is called a 55 gallon drum of water

You get a pound of wheat = 1 pound of flour from just 10 sq ft of wheat plants (about 3.5' x 3' of space). Could even grow it in bins/pots!

I'd bet that an apple corer would be a good tool, even better than a grapefruit spoon.

If you have a chipper you can chip the stalks just like you would small branches for either the compost pile, directly on the garden or even drying and using for chicken or pig bedding. You could also dry and save for staking up plants the next gardening season.

🤣🤣🤣 I died laughing when you asked if she had a vase for the gigantic stalks 💀

I'm curious if you think the dehydrated stalks would be good to eat by themselves, maybe with some butter, salt and pepper? Looking forward to hearing how the flour works in a recipe. Am enjoying your channel!

Have u baked with this flour yet? Curious to know how it tastes like 🤗

Was that a grinder that you used to sift the flour? Brand and where did you purchase? Looks wonderful and love that you can use every part of the sunflower. 🌻🌻🌻

Hi I was wondering what other animals you guys want in the future I recommend goats because they will eat most of the weeds in your garden and give you milk

This might be a stupid question, but is this flour gluten free? My 12 year old has coeliac disease. What sort of things can we use ty is flour for also? Thank you. I have a stall ready to harvest 😁I’ve been cutting the sunflower heads and keeping some to plant and other to roast. I knew you could make things with the stalk but not flour. Great video!

I had no idea you got flour from the stalks, I always thought it was just from the seeds. Mind Blown

Interesting. Is all sunflowers can be used that way.

i just ran outside to check on my chickens not realizing it was yours in the video making all the noise LOL

Dry the stalks and use for kindling

Was the tool you used a piece of pipe?

What does it taste like?

super-cool! Culinarily speaking, it looks like it would behave similarly to cornstarch, tapioca starch, etc., rather than flour.

After you bake bread and cakes with it I am curious about the tast

There are scoop woodcarving tools that would work perfectly.

I do the same with zucchini, zucchini flour

Try an apple corer. The two piece kind.srperste it and just use the part that cuts the core .

"I got you a bouquet of flowers!" lol Imagine your hubby coming back, thinking he got you some big ass geraniums! lol We usually dried our stalks for stakes for our lighter plants. Rain and rodents destroyed even our volunteer plants this year. All we have to show for sunflowers, is a leggy 2/3 foot with a small flower. Luckily, we still have seeds saved to try again next year. Is sunflower oil obtained by the leaves? If you can't use the 'kindle' stalk for craft then surely it can be dried for heat?

There is a KZfaq video of a lady in China who boiled corn stalks to make syrup. I wonder if the same could be done with sunflower stalks.

Mulch or compost for the stocks

I wounder if i can make flour from mexican sunflowers stocks?

Do you ever grow wheat or similar, or is it just too much space for little product.

Does it feel more like a rice flour?

hi really wanna know how it taste

I make bread from sunflower flour. Delicious. Gave up on wheat. Makes me sick.

Would be great to what you cooked with the flour

Thanks to kzfaq.info for showing us how it's done 🙌

Is it hard to pull stumps out of the ground or do they rot?

I wonder if you can do the same with Jerusalem artichokes

couldnt find how was it in cooking, any updates i missed?

The more you learn. I will keep in mind about sunflower stock flour

Can this be done with Wild Sunflowers?

I think you need to yell, "Timber!" when you cut those things down. :)

Tried looking for the video/pic of what you made but guess its too far back. Has anyone tried this with wild sunflowers? The kind on roadsides with 20 small flower heads.

you should try oats you get so much flower from oats and you can make oatmeal, oat milk

No honorable mention for City Prepping?

An apple corer might work too

A apple corer would work well too.

Wasps use the outer part to make paper wasp nests with. Probably could use it ourselves to make paper with.