Creative Canning | June 2025
Early Summer Canning Recipes
June is when the canning season really kicks into high gear.
The last of the spring crops are still lingering, but early summer fruit is starting to roll in fast—cherries, blueberries, and even the first flush of raspberries if you’re lucky.
The garden starts shifting from leafy greens to heavier crops like zucchini, green beans, and cucumbers, and that means it’s time to get out the water bath canner and clear off some pantry space.
Let’s put that early summer bounty to work!
June Canning Recipe Lists
These recipe lists will keep you busy canning what’s in season in June!
June Meal in a Jar & Soup Recipes
June is when the garden starts producing more than you can eat fresh—but not quite enough for full-on tomato sauce season. It’s a great time to can hearty meals using what's on hand, especially lighter soups, taco meat, and veggie-packed dishes. These meal-in-a-jar recipes help you get ahead of the game before summer hits full tilt.
June Fruit Canning Recipes
By June, strawberries are still going strong, but the real excitement is in the new arrivals: sweet cherries, blueberries, and early apricots. Whether you’re preserving whole fruits, making pie fillings, or putting up a few jars of homemade lemonade concentrate, these recipes will keep your pantry colorful.
June Jam, Jelly & Fruit Butter Recipes
Now is the perfect time to start filling your shelves with sweet preserves. June brings classic jams like blueberry, cherry, and raspberry, but it’s also a great time for wild foraged jellies and flower preserves if you're still spotting elderflowers or clover blooms.
June Juice Canning Recipes
With some of the first sweet fruits of summer, the juices start to flow!
June Pie Filling Canning Recipes
There are more than 20 pie-filling recipes you can make at home for canning, and many are just coming into season in June.
June Vegetable Canning Recipes
Zucchini, green beans, and fresh corn are starting to appear—and that means it’s time to start preserving summer’s vegetable glut before it gets overwhelming. These canning recipes help capture the harvest while it’s still manageable.
June Pickling Recipes
Cucumber season is just beginning, and there’s plenty to pickle—young zucchini, green beans, garlic scapes, and even some of those cherries if you’re feeling adventurous. June’s pickling projects are perfect for adding crisp, tangy variety to your pantry.
If there’s a fruit or veggie showing up at your farmers market (or overflowing from your garden) and you’re wondering what to do with it, hit reply and let me know.
I’m always happy to point you toward a canning recipe that works—or help troubleshoot something you’re experimenting with.
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, fermenting) 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.)
Any advice for pickled radishes?