Creative Canning | October 2024
Mid- Autumn Canning Recipes
October is all about apple picking and cozy cups of cider by the bonfire. This is peak harvest season for most full-season crops, and there are plenty of options when it comes to autumn canning recipes!
You can get an early jump on root crops like Carrots, beets, parsnips, and onions, or you can let those slide a few more months to keep right in the garden.
Apples and winter squash, similarly, will keep in a cool place for a few weeks until you can get to them, but there’s no time like the present to get it all in a jar so that it’s not spoiling on the counter. And, it’s always a good idea to get everything put up before the busy holiday season.
What won’t wait though, is the end-of-season garden produce. The last of the tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans and just about everything else that’s highly perishable and had to come out of the garden before the first frost.
Prioritize those recipes, and then return to your cozy autumn staples at the end of the month.
October Canning Recipe Lists
These recipe lists will keep you busy canning what’s in season in October!
October Meal in a Jar & Soup Recipes
October is when winter squash really shines, and you can get great deals at the pumpkin patch on bulk batches of pumpkins and butternut squash. It’s also harvest season for most types of meat, whether you’re harvesting on the homestead or getting your meat fresh from the farm.
October Fruit Canning Recipes
Late in the season, you’ll still have apples and pears at their peak, but you can also often put up the last of the mid-summer fruits like berries and plums!
October Jam, Jelly & Fruit Butter Recipes
Though the fresh berries of summer are gone, there’s still plenty of ways to make Jams, Jellies and fruit butters with late-season fruit!
October Juice Canning Recipes
Most of the juice canning recipes end with summer, but there are a few that reach their peak in October…and there’s nothing like home-canned cider!
October Pie Filling Canning Recipes
There are more than 20 pie-filling recipes you can make at home for canning, but many are out of season by October. There are still apples, pears, and more, though!
October Vegetable Canning Recipes
Putting up plain veggies means quick, versatile meals later on, and October has most the garden to choose from still!
October Pickling Recipes
You can pickle almost anything, and that includes late-season October produce!
Pickled Onions (3 ways)
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, 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.)