What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season Right Now? April Produce Guide 2025

A quick stroll through the market right now and you know it's April because tables are stacked with those quintessential Spring fruits and vegetables like asparagus, artichokes, and crisp snap peas. Use this list of what fruits and vegetables in season in April as your Guide to the BEST recipes and ideas to eat. Shall we?

Fruits and Vegetables in Season April, Farmers Market Haul

Fruits and Vegetables in Season in April | Recipes and Ideas for April |
Fruits and Vegetables in Season Year-Round

What Fruits and Vegetables in Season in April

Here's the tl;dr list easy to copy and paste into your grocery list for the week ahead. Peep the following section for more details, and the best recipes that are fast, fresh, easy, and of course, healthy.

Artichokes—year-round from California
Asparagus
Avocados
Blueberries
Cantaloupe—other melons come later in spring and summer
Carrots, especially babies!—it's the season for teeny tiny baby version of everything!
Cherries and apricots, the earliest stone fruits
Cucumbers
Fava and other fresh beans
Garlic and onions—always in season but early spring brings tender green garlic!
Kiwi
Lettuce and Leafy Greens—year-round
Mushrooms, specifically morels which are foraged
Peas and snap peas
Radishes (year-round)
Rhubarb—very short window, grab them when you see them!
Spinach—technically a cool season vegetable
Strawberries, in California year round in California, but everywhere else starting April!
Tomatoes, early varieties
Tropical Fruit

Recipes and Ideas for April

ARTICHOKES and ASPARAGUS

AVOCADO

You've been tolerating the watery avocados of winter that are almost always bruised because they're thrown into cold storage and transported from afar. But April is when avocados closer to home come into season.

How to Cut and Slice Avocado, Five Ways
Avocado Hummus
Avocado Citrus Salad
California Roll Summer Rolls with Avocado

BLUEBERRIES

Look, blueberries are in the category of food of "Why Mess with the Best?" i.e. just wash them and eat them fresh right out of hand. However, when blueberries are abundant in season, you might as well put them in everything for their extraordinary antioxidant profile.

CANTALOUPE

CHERRIES

Cherries are another fruit in the "Why Mess with the Best?" category, i.e. just wash them and eat them fresh right out of hand, especially if we're talking about eating the antioxidant-rich fruit as anything but a baked sweet treat. But since everything cherries—from jewelry to paint colors—will be trending in 2025, buy as many as you can and make these recipes:

Cherry Tabbouleh
Cherry Salsa for Grilled Salmon
Cherry Pomegranate Smoothie
How to Pit Cherries without a Pitter
Summer Red Fruit Salad with Berries and Cherries

CARROTS

You probably don't pay that much attention to carrots the rest of the year except as a flavor base along with fellow NPCs onions and celery for soups or as a supporting ingredient. But in the winter, when other main character vegetables are off-duty, carrots can take center stage with their bright, crisp, subtly sweet, vitamin A-rich glory.

CUCUMBERS

FAVA BEANS and other FRESH BEANS

MUSHROOMS

PEAS and SNAP PEAS

Green Goddess Crudités Board

RADISHES

BABY ROOT VEGETABLES like Beets, Parsnips, and Turnips

Technically, beets and their cousins are in season year-round, but their earthy, hearty flavor and texture really vibes in the cooler months. Other than just straight up roasting them, whizz them into highly dippable hummus and yogurt dips!

SPINACH

Spinach is technically a cool season vegetable in season in spring and fall, but you know you see it year round in the grocery store. If you make it to a local farmers' market, you'll find the Spring varieties starting in April!

Spinach Artichoke Grilled Cheese
Korean Sesame Spinach, Shi-geum-chi Namul

STRAWBERRIES

rainbow fruits and veges farmers market haul year round

Fruit and Vegetables in Season Right Now and Always

These fruits and vegetables are considered "always in season!" At least here in California!

Vegetables in Season Year Round

Artichokes, you wouldn't believe it because they're so closely associated with spring, but California grows artichokes year-round!
Beets
- Beet hummus
- Tzatziki with roasted beets
Broccoli, cauliflower and fam, except brussels
Cabbage
- Cabbage Apple Salad with Miso Mustard Dressing
Carrots
Garlic
Herbs
- cilantro: Peruvian Green Sauce Aji Verde
- cilantro: Cilantro Lime Dressing
- dill: Dill Pickled Chopped Salad
- parsley: Olive Salsa Verde
- parsley: Italian Salsa Verde
- rosemary: Rosemary Olive Oil Cake
- rosemary: Rosemary White Bean Dip
- thyme: Meyer Lemon Thyme Olive Oil Cake
lettuces and leafy greens
mushrooms
Onions
Potatoes
Radishes
- Pickled Radish
- Vietnamese Pickled Carrots and Radish Do Chua
- Soy Sauce Pickled Radish and Onions
- Spicy Radish Salad, aka musaengchae
- Radish Kimchi, aka "kkadugi"
Sweet potatoes
Whipped Sweet Potatoes with Feta and Pomegranate

Fruits in Season Year Round

Lemons and Limes
- Lemon Vinaigrette Dressing
- Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette
- Lemon Olive Oil Cake
- Marcella Hazan's Roast Chicken with Lemons

Mandarins and Tangerines
Oranges
- Orange Olive Oil Cake
- for your Cheese and Charcuterie Boards: Candied Oranges
- for your cocktail garnishes: Dried Oranges
Strawberries
Edible flowers
- Spring Rolls with Flowers
- Carrot Cake topped with Nasturtiums
Dried Fruit
- Pickled Prunes
- Brownie Baked Oatmeal with Prunes
- Pinot Prune Jam
- Healthy Chocolate Spread aka "No-tella"
- Chocolate Salami for Dessert Platters
- Homemade Hoisin Sauce
- Cauliflower Sicilian-style with Raisins and Pistachios

Coming Soon: In Season in May and June

Blackberries, Boysenberries, Raspberries—May - October
Cherry tomatoes
Corn
Figs—May, September-November
Grapes May to January
Green beans
Melons
Mulberries
New/baby potatoes
Okra
Peaches, nectarines and plums—May to October
Peppers—May to December
Snow peas
Squash Summer - May to October