“I actually created my own pulp separator and it's an old salad spinner ... it takes five or six rounds to do that”

Christopher and Maggie Snow · The Seed Farmer Podcast · Ep. 89 Launching A Moschata Seed Company - Christopher and Maggie Snow, Autumn Prairie Pumpkins

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Repurpose a large salad spinner to separate pulp from squash seeds, running multiple rounds to clean seeds

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“…alternating big seed small seed… run the thresher for five or ten minutes between changing seed types to clean out a lot of the extra bits… very little chance of contamination…”
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