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  • From: Pumpkin Lady <pumpkin@xanadoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Need suggestions on how to hull buckwheat
  • Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:22:45 -0500

Amrita Chaudhury wrote:

I am writing from India. I grew some buckwheat as a green manure crop and let some of them go to seed. Has anybody hulled their buckwheat at home? Is there a way to hull the seeds without using a buckwheat hulling machine?

Caveat: I have not yet faced this issue. This will be my first year growing buckwheat. NO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. :-)

I guess the real question is, what do you want to do with it?

I did some searches on the net, and almost everything I find is useless. One of the Mother Earth News online articles said that the hull detached easily when they ground it in a hand grinder and they sifted the hull bits out, but that sounds a bit off to me. Dark buckwheat flour has the hull, or at least bits of it, ground in it. Light buckwheat flour has the hull completely removed before grinding.

IF the hulls really are relatively easily detached, you might could just pour some in a pan and rub it through your hands a while and then winnow in front of a fan again, or whatever you did the first time to remove the trash front the grain.

If it doesn't rub off by hand, you might try putting it in a pillowcase and smacking it with a rubber hammer or walking on it with your shoes on.

Hope someone has better info. I may not need it now, but I sure will soon.

Happy Growing!
Morgan




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