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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Popcorn Sheller
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:42:04 -0400

http://d-lab.mit.edu/resources

I don't know the answers to any of your questions, but you might take a look
at the corn sheller information from the D lab at MIT, which has developed a
very low tech (and amazingly effective) corn sheller. Their intent is to make
this and other low tech inventions buildable by peasants throughout the
world. I went to a workshop that included a demonstration of the hand-held
models, and a bicycle-powered one that formed the basis of a one-person
business: someone riding around to local farms, then putting up the
kickstands and shelling the corn.

Richard Robinson
www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
Hopestill Farm
www.hopestill.com


On 8/20/2012 at 4:35:23 PM, andrea davis wrote:
> I'm growing popcorn for the first time this year and it is looking
> beautiful! I had intended to just sell it by the ear to my CSA but now I'm
> thinking it would great to sell it at farmers' market too. I was thinking I
> could still sell it by the ear but then put it through a hand crank corn
> sheller right there at the market. I am wondering if anyone on this list
> has
> done something like this before and if they have any advice or suggestions?
>
> Also I have looking to purchase a hand crank corn sheller. Most our
> priced around $270 like this one from Lehman's but then I found one at
> Pleasant Hill for $80, seems like a big price difference and of course I'm
> leaning towards the cheaper one. Any popcorn sheller recommendations?
>
>
> I'm also trying to figure out how to make a box to hold the sheller and an
> efficient way to operate it at the market.
>
>
> Thanks in advance to everyone on the list for your help,
>
>
> Andrea
> Quarter Acre Farm (that is truly 3/4 of an acre)
> Sonoma, CA




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