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  • From: "Bob Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Perennial Nonedible Oilseeds
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:04:32 -0600

Any thoughts on how to get the oil from the Maximilian sunflower seeds? They are very small, much smaller than a regular oilseed sunflower. Chop and boil and then skim off the oil? Or would a press work? We have them growing, but haven't figured out the oil extraction aspect.

In other news, at the order of Oklahoma City, today we chopped down 2 plum, 1 peach, 1 mulberry, 1 fig, and 1 apple tree. Details at http://www.bobwaldrop.net/?p=737 for more details, pictures of the deed at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=285630&id=779963701&l=d24829f0fa . I feel like I am on the Titanic and watching while they chop holes in the bottoms of the lifeboats.

Bob Waldrop, Okie City

----- Original Message ----- From: "Merry Cox" <broadminded2@msn.com>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Perennial Nonedible Oilseeds



Maximilian sunflowers grow at 7,200 ft in the Colorado Rockies.
Merry

Illinois bundleflower? And Wes Jackson is also growing Maximilian sunflower
in
Kansas, but that may be zone 5. Both have significant quantities of oil. Most
indigenous people in the frozen north get their oil from animals.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com



On Mar 9, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Jay Woods wrote:

I've just realized that I don't know of a single one good for zone 4 or
colder. The closest thing to this that I do know is the seeds of most
fruits such as apple, pear, peach and apricot have a small amount of oil
and the seeds themselves are inedible because of the cyanide content.
The composition of persimmon and pawpaw seeds needs to be checked on.
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