The Sunflower Seed Huller and Oil Press
Life honouring food storage and preservation article.-- from Organic Gardening, April 1979, Rodale Press
IN 2,500 SQUARE FEET, a family of four can grow each year enough sunflower seed to produce three gallons of homemade vegetable oil suitable for salads or cooking and 20 pounds of nutritious, dehulled seed -- with enough broken seeds left over to feed a winter's worth of birds.
The problem was the difficulty of dehulling them at home, and the lack of a device for expressing oil from the seeds. This details two methods of winnowing and de hulling, grinding and a homemade oil press