The Complete Guide to Seed and Nut Oils

Press your own right at home – homemade oils for cooking and health.

The Complete Guide to Seed and Nut Oils is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and photographed, full-color guide to growing, foraging, and pressing nut and seed crops to produce high-quality oils for culinary and other uses. Coverage includes:
A brief history of seed oil extraction
Culinary and health benefits of home-pressed oils versus factory produced oils
Presses and other equipment options for ease, cost, and convenience
How-to for growing, harvesting, processing, and pressing nuts and seeds
Profiles of over 40 nuts and seeds to grow, forage, or source including hempseed, flax, peanuts, sunflowers, walnuts, okra, and more.
Oil processing, storage, and culinary and other uses
Scaling up for community or small-scale commercial production.


Whether you want to produce oils for cooking, balms and salves, self-sufficiency and resiliency or for small-scale commercial or community production, The Complete Guide to Seed and Nut Oils is a one-stop shop to get you started.