How to Freeze Fresh Blueberries

Blueberries are one of the easiest fruits or vegetables to freeze. Learn just how easy it is to freeze fresh blueberries in the few steps below.

Fresh blueberries picked at a u-pick farm

We have been lucky enough to live near blueberry u-pick farms for many years. If you go at the right time when the blueberries are big and ripe, you won’t be there long. Tickle off those blueberries into your basket and they will fill up before you know it.

One of my favorite parts about the blueberry u-pick farm is that they are a no-spray farm. They didn’t use any chemicals and kept their fields very clean.

We picked the blueberries to take home, but were also able to taste test along the way. No chemicals or dirt to be found.

Baskets of blueberries ready to preserve

If you take home your blueberries from a place like that, you won’t even have to wash them off. You can, but it isn’t necessary and knocks quite a bit of time off of getting your berries into the freezer.

Steps for Freezing Fresh Blueberries

Wash blueberries if need and lay out to dry on towels.
If you don’t need to wash the blueberries, you will start with sorting them. If they are fresh picked, you will get some green berries, stems, leaves, and maybe a bug or two in there. You want to pick all that out.
After blueberries are sorted, all you have to do is throw them in gallon sized freezer bags. You do not have to flash freeze them first. Because blueberries do not stick to each other when you freeze them (as long as they are dry when they go in the bag) they can go directly in the bag and straight to the freezer.
When you need to use some blueberries, take out the bag and scoop out the needed amount and return the rest to the freezer.

Note: If you can’t get them all the way dry after washing, you might have to lay them out on a baking sheet and flash freeze before putting them in the zip top bags.