Dehulling sunflower seeds with a mill?

[KTurner]

I'm thinking of putting a number of sunflowers in the garden this year, maybe 100 or so. Our 2 year old son will have a blast with a forest of huge flowers he can see from his window and go play in. And my wife has been eating sunflower seeds in salads, soups, etc. I'd like to be ready to process them so we can eat them. If that fails, plan b would be that we enjoy feeding/watching the birds so they'd eat well next winter. I've read that you can put sunflower seeds through a (properly adjusted) grain mill to dehull them, but I have zero experience with mills. Some searching shows there are different types of mills and I don't want to get the wrong type. Can anyone give me a quick rundown on dehulling sunflower seeds with a mill? Or a link?

How about storing sunflower seeds for human consumption? better to leave them in the shell for storage? roasted/uncooked?

Thanks
Keith

 

[deerseeker001]

We tried for 3-4 years to try to grow Sun Flowers but never had much luck,don't know if its the soil or not enough growing time in our zone.there are a lot different seeds out there also.Good luck

 

[MoKelly]

Can't answer your question on the best way to store the seeds, but, I eat the shell as well as the seed.

MoKelly

 

[KTurner]

I think we'll be fine on the growing front. We planted about a dozen a few years ago and they did well. I cut those flowers off, let them dry then set them out for the birds.

Keith