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

A quick stroll through the market right now and you know it's MAY 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 MAY as your Guide to the BEST recipes and ideas to eat. Shall we?

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

What Fruits and Vegetables in Season in MAY

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
Blackberries and Raspberries—new in MAY
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
Figs—new in MAY
Garlic and onions—always in season but early spring brings tender green garlic!
Grapes—new in MAY
Lettuce and Leafy Greens—year-round
Mushrooms, specifically morels which are foraged
Peaches—new in MAY
Peas and snap peas
Peppers—new in MAY
Radishes (year-round)
Squash like zucchini—new in MAY
Strawberries, in California year round in California, but everywhere else starting to peak!

Recipes and Ideas for MAY

ARTICHOKES and ASPARAGUS

AVOCADO

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

red raspberries salmonberries goldenberries blackberries on tray

BLACKBERRIES and RASPBERRIES

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

ricotta fig toast with mint and ppistachios

FIGS

Fresh figs are usually considered a summer fruit because they are officially in season May to November. But technically, figs have two very short "seasons" on either end of summer. The first season can start as early as May, depending on the variety of fig and where you are located. Then, fresh figs sort of disappear during the height of the summer season and come back for their second season which starts in late August and can go as late as November.