Creative Canning | April 2025

Spring Canning Recipes

April canning recipes highlight the best of what the spring season has to offer.

As temperatures start to warm for the season, now’s a good time to plan ahead for summer canning…when temperatures rise, and you don’t want to heat up the kitchen. Start thinking about setting up an outdoor canning kitchen if you have a yard.

April Canning Recipes

Most places have an abundance of spring flowers at this point, and the first of the early fruits are showing up in warmer locations.

Here in Vermont, we still haven’t seen our first dandelions, but in most places, spring is in full bloom, and everyone’s starting to fill their pantry with preserves.

Asparagus, fiddleheads, and ramps are showing up on store shelves (and in the woods for foragers to find). Early spring peas and rhubarb are also plentiful. It’s also a good time to put up new potatoes and early carrots, along with meal-in-a-jar recipes, before the temperatures rise for summer.

Spring Fruit Canning Recipes

• 12+ Rhubarb Canning Recipes

• Canning Rhubarb Pie Filling

• Canning Strawberry Pie Filling

• Canning Rhubarb

• Canning Rhubarb Juice

• Canning Strawberries

Rhubarb Juice, Syrup, pie filling and more!

Spring Jams and Jellies

• Old Fashioned Strawberry Jam (No added pectin)

• Rhubarb Jam

• Pineberry Jam

• Haskap Jam

• Spruce Tip Jelly

• Herbal Jellies (Savory or Sweet)

• Redbud Flower Jelly

Spring Pickling Recipes

• Pickled Asparagus

• Pickled Ramps

• Pickled Onions

Spring Vegetable Canning Recipes

• Canning Asparagus

• Canning Peas

• Canning Potatoes

• Canning Carrots

Spring Meal in a Jar Canning Recipes

• Canning Chicken Pot Pie Filling (Fresh peas and carrots)

• Canning Carrot Soup

• Canning Split Pea Soup

If there’s a canning or preserving recipe that you’d like to find, please do let me know in the comments, and I’ll see what I can do to track it down for you.

Happy Canning!

-Ashley at Creative Canning

(Ps. I also run the blog Practical Self Reliance, which has information on all manner of food preservation techniques (cheesemaking, salt curing, winemaking) as well as just about everything else you’d need to learn to be self-reliant in this modern world. It has its own substack as well, and you can subscribe to practical self-reliance separately as well. That newsletter comes out weekly and covers canning, as well as everything else.)