Making sunflower oil

[Ravenlost]

We grew the oil type sunflower seed this year and I found this interesting article about making oil. Thought I'd share in case anyone else was interested:

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_.../oilpress.html

[moonwolf]

I really like that journeytoforever.org site. It has a LOT of awesome information. Thanks for posting attention to the sunflower oil.

Did you grow a lot of the oil sunflower seed?

[james dilley]

Great read, Its now bookmarked. It may well be that there will be A use for A small producer to Extract oil for the Community in A few years! just think.

[Ravenlost]

This was the first year we grew some. They did so well we plan to grow a large plot of them next year.

[Triffin]

What did you do to keep critters and birds out ??

Mine were a real 'pest' magnet this year ..

I can't imagine what steps one would have to take to
protect several acres of sunflowers or whatever amount
one would need to grow to produce sufficient oil ..

Triff ..

[Ravenlost]

Nothing. I have 10 dogs and 10 cats. That seems to sufficiently keep out critters and birds.

[MELOC]

my general strategy for all plants is to plant one for God, one for the animals and one for myself.

[donsgal]

Originally Posted by Ravenlost

We grew the oil type sunflower seed this year and I found this interesting article about making oil. Thought I'd share in case anyone else was interested:

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_.../oilpress.html

Check out http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_.../oilpress.html and http://www.haitiinnovation.org/en/20...-micro-lending just to name a few.

If you google "appropriate technology" you will find there are a lot of really neat things out there that have been designed for developing contries which would be very useful on the homestead. There is a multi CD set called the "appropriate technology library" which I might buy one of these days - but it is expensive as heck. Here is just a sample of some of the information that is contained in them.

http://www.thefarm.org/charities/i4at/library.html

donsgal

[Ravenlost]

Thanks for the links.

[Puddin]

Ohhh... thank you for that link Ravenlost!
I have been struggling to make/use a solar cooker for quite some time now. This Link has some new ideas for me to try! I haven't had time to go through the whole site yet though.
Gloria

[backwoods]

Can someone please tell me the difference in 'black oil sunflowers' and the rest? I grow sunflowers for animal feed and never thought about the difference.Also where can I get some seed.

[snowangel]

Originally Posted by backwoods

Can someone please tell me the difference in 'black oil sunflowers' and the rest? I grow sunflowers for animal feed and never thought about the difference.Also where can I get some seed.

Read this: http://www.sunflowernsa.com/

[Shinsan]

Donsgal, Thank you very much for the link to 'thefarm' website.
I've only spent a few minutes checking it out, but it's up there with 'journeytoforever' for the practical information it contains.

Shin