Sourced from each province's own guide

What's ready right now

Pick your province and a month, and see what growers there are actually harvesting, with the preserving guide for each. Then print a dated label for the jar.

Label a jar

HealthLink BC's list of food never to eat includes not being sure whether it was properly canned. A dated label is what stops a jar becoming that one. Fill this in, print, and stick it on.

Corrected 16 September 2026. This labeller used to print “Best quality by” one year ahead on every method, including Refrigerator only — not shelf stable. One year is Bernardin's figure for home-canned food and nothing else; on a frozen, fermented, dehydrated or refrigerated jar it was our number, not theirs, and it was too long for a refrigerated one. If you printed a label like that, go by the keeping time in the guide for your method, not by the date on the label, and check the jar before eating — the discard checklist covers what to look for.

A best-quality date is printed only on the two canned methods. Bernardin publishes one year for home-canned food and that is the only keeping window this site states — it is not ours to put on a frozen, fermented, dehydrated or refrigerated jar. Those labels carry the date you made them and the method, and the keeping time comes from the guide for that method.

Where these dates come from

Every window on this page comes from the province it names. Nothing here is estimated from a growing zone, averaged from a US chart, or borrowed from the province next door.

Two provinces so far. British Columbia and the Prairies publish their own guides and they follow as each is read. We would rather show you nothing than show you Ontario's dates with a different province's name on them — a BC apple harvest is not an Ontario one.

Québec's calendar is a French PDF whose grid is drawn rather than written out, so the months here are decoded from it; the decode and the four checks it was validated against are documented in scripts/build-quebec-harvest.py. Crop names are shown in the source's own French alongside the English so you can match a row against the calendar itself.