35 Ideas For Preserving your Spring Harvest

Fresh seasonal food has maximum flavor and nutrition. My goal is to eat as much garden food as possible while it’s in season and with the excess preserve for when there isn’t as much abundance. This year, I’ve been working extra hard to meet my goal of a year of homegrown vegetables. It’s had me thinking of all the ways I need to preserve for winter, my hardest season to complete 100% vegetables from my backyard garden.

I wanted to give you some ideas on how to preserve what you have right now. In some parts of the US you may already be done with your spring harvest and others are just beginning. I’m right at the tail end of these early crops.

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Kimchi Ingredients from the garden

Homemade Kimchi

This list is meant to be a wide range of things so you can mix and match based on what you like and what is in your garden. It isn’t a comprehensive list of all spring preserves merely a list to spark some ideas and help you get started!

Before Dehydrating Strawberries

After Dehydrating Strawberries

I also made a printable list at the end if you would like to check off things or maybe just have it on your fridge as a reminder. I’m a list person so the visual reminder really works for me.

Dandelion Ready for dehydrating

Dandelion Jelly

1. Make dandelion Jelly

2. Dry dandelion leaves and roots

3. Dehydrate Spinach

4. Freeze Spinach

5. Dehydrate Kale

6. Freeze Kale

7. Can or Freezing Strawberry Jam

8. Freeze Strawberries

9. Dehydrate Strawberries

10. Make Strawberry Fruit Leather

11. Can Strawberries in Syrup

12. Dehydrate Rhubarb

13. Freeze Rhubarb

14. Can Pickled Asparagus

15. Dehydrate Asparagus

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16. Freeze Asparagus

17. Make Fermented Asparagus Pickles

18. Make Kimchi

19. Make Sauerkraut

20. Dehydrate Carrots

21. Ferment Carrots

22. Freeze Snap Peas, Snow Peas, or English Peas

23. Dehydrate Snap, Snow, or English Peas

24. Pressure Can Peas

25. Pressure Can Beets

26. Dehydrated Beets and Powder

27. Canning Pickled Cauliflower

28. Freeze Cauliflower

29. Dry Chives

30. Dry Lemon Balm

31. Dry Oregano

32. Dry Lavender

33. Dry Mint

34. Dry Sage

35. Pack herbs in oil and freeze

Lavender On Dehydrator Trays

What are your favorite things to preserve in Spring? Leave me a comment, I’d love to hear about it!