Quinoa: Sifting seed from the flowers

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(http://www.green-talk.com) Growing quiona is really hard up north since germination isn't great. I actually got 2 stalks and now I am trying to figure out who to sift the flowers from the seeds. The quiona is the black variety. So, if anyone has a better idea of how to sift the seeds, I am all ears. For more green living and gardening adventures, subscribe to my free newsletter. http://www.green-talk.com/subscribe

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You can winnow it. Wait for a day with a steady light breeze.(or use a box fan) Pour your threshed harvest from one bucket to the next, back and forth till its mostly seed. You'll lose a few seeds here and there, and keep a little leaf/stem matter. These things float up with the sudsy saponin when you go to rinse it*, leaving only the goods on the bottom, Hope that was helpful. * I rinse mine by pulsing it in a cuisinart.
Its so tiny - do you think a food processor would just make it powder? Maybe give it a couple pulses - on another video I was watching a guy, after rubbing them a bit, puts them in water and the hulls rise to the top... boy - it does look tedious! But they say that quinoa, the plant can all be eaten - the seed and the leaves... heres the link for the vid on the putting his seeds in water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFHSHIdIgGs... good luck with that!
did you ever figure out how to do it??
Wow. Good luck on that.I suppose if you kept sifting,it would keep separating some but it probably wouldn't get it all.Maybe if you put in in a slightly concave surface or bowl and put a blow dryer on it on low it might work.