35 Ideas For Preserving your Spring Harvest

by Becky Porter November 30, 2019

written by Becky Porter Published: June 11, 2019Last Updated on November 30, 2019

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.

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