Hand cranked/powered seed huller

I'm a vegan, and I live in Michigan which has all 4 seasons. If possible I would like to be raw vegan, but canned food requires cooking as part of the process, so the only way I can think of to be raw foodist in the winter is to eat seeds, since seeds preserve well for a year or more. However almost all seeds have a shell. I would like to prepare for a future where there is no electric power, or electricity becomes too expensive, so I want a hand cranked seed huller. The most important seed for me is hemp seed. Hemp seed contains all 9 amino acids that the human body needs, and every vitamin and mineral necessary, plus omega 3 and 6 oil in proper balance, so I want a hand cranked seed huller that will work well for hemp seeds.
I've tried the wood board on seed then hammer on board method they recommend online to hull the seeds, and the results are atrocious, I'm just smashing the seeds to pieces, with no discrimination between the shell and the heart of the seed, then they say to put the resulting pieces into the water the stir vigorously to separate the seed and the shell, but it seems that both the seed and the shell act the same in the water, so they don't separate easily. Both the seed heart and the shell will float to the top and the bottom and distribute through the whole body of water.
I've also tried just eating the hemp seed with the shell on but the shell is a digestive nightmare, only slightly less painful than eating sunflower seed shells.
Does anyone know of any home seed huller or another method to hull hemp seed reliably?

I don't have a definite answer, Adam, but I hope someone else does! I did read that a Corona hand mill can be modified to do this, but the article didn't give any more information.

Howdy,


"Hemp seed contains all 9 amino acids that the human body needs, and every vitamin and mineral necessary, plus omega 3 and 6 oil in proper balance, so I want a hand cranked seed huller that will work well for hemp seeds."  

I also eat hemp seed when I can. Since it has become "legal" and is sold as food grade, I don't trust the way I see it grown here in southern oregon. Grows I see are signed "industrial hemp" which doesn't sound food grade to me,(Pesticide/herbicide, no weeds in outdoor grows etc).

I have a corona type hand crank grinder and I just ground the whole seed fine and eat them like that, in oatmeal, granola, pastries. The mill I have has 3 sets of grinding burrs, one set is for just cracking seeds/grain but it doesn't really let you separate the seed from the hull. If you could get the seed separated from the hull, maybe you could winnow the chaff/hulls away with the use of an electric fan? I've done this with heavier seeds like pine.

I also thought about sprouted hemp seed...