Michael Cohen

Growing Sunflowers and Pressing Oil at Garden Scale

Growing Sunflowers and Pressing Oil at Garden Scale

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I want to produce the three principal ingredients for my sesame whole grain crackers: hard red winter wheat flour, sesame seeds and sunflower oil. The winter wheat I have been growing for years. In 2023, I grew sesame seeds and also worked on a new approach to making sunflower oil. To make sunflower oil I needed a relatively low-tech and low-cost system scaled for human labor and small volume.