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Specific Fruit and Vegetable Picking and Preserving Guides and Recipes
After you go to Santa Barbara Blueberries at Restoration Oaks Farm, you may want to freeze, can or preserve the fruit or vegetables you get there. See these pages below for detailed, illustrated, step-by-step instructions that make it easy!
- How much do I need to pick?
- Apples
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Cherries
- Figs
- Green Beans
- Peaches, Plums and Apricots
- Pears
- Peppers (hot or sweet)
- Raspberries
- Rhubarb
- Sweet Potatoes
- Strawberries
- Tomatoes
- Watermelons
- Other Vegetables
- Complete list of home canning and freezing directions
More Festivals
- Apple festivals
- Apple butter festivals
- Asparagus festivals
- Avocado festivals
- Blackberry festivals
- Blueberry festivals
- Bean festivals (green beans, lima beans, pole beans, baked beans, etc.)
- Cantaloupe festivals
- Cherry Festivals
- Chili, Chile Peppers Hot peppers and hot sauce festivals
- Corn festivals
- Cranberry festivals
- Currant festivals
- Easter egg hunts
- Fall / Harvest Festivals
- Flower festivals and flower picking
- Garlic Festivals
- Gooseberry festivals
- Hazelnut festivals
- Honey festivals
- Horseradish festivals
- Nut festivals (Almonds, Chestnuts, etc)
- Octoberfests
- Onion Festivals
- Peach Festivals
- Pecan Festivals
- Peanut Festivals
- Pear festivals
- Plum festivals
- Pumpkin Festivals
- Raspberry festivals
- Rhubarb Festivals
- Strawberry festivals
- Sweet Potato Festivals and Yam Festivals
- Tomato festivals
- Walnut festivals
- Watermelon festivals
See below for more farm-related information
- Home canning and freezing directions
- Pumpkin patches
- Corn mazes
- Christmas Tree Farms & lots
- Easter egg hunts
- Find local children's consignment sales
- Home canning equipment and supplies
- How to make homemade ice cream
- Recommended canning +books and guides
- Farm markets and roadside stands
- Local fruit and vegetable festivals
- Local Winery tours and wine tastings
- Other types of local farms: honey, horses, meats, milk, eggs, etc.
- Environmental resources
- Consumer fraud information
Looking for canning equipment and supplies?
Water bath canner with a jar rack
Pressure canners for gas, electric and induction stoves: Presto 23Qt or T-fal 22Qt
Canning scoop (this one is PERFECT)
Ball Blue book (most recent version)