diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
index f1bc27e..fc7d822 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - name: Build
       run: cargo build --verbose
-    - name: Run tests
+    - name: Run tests (default features)
       run: cargo test --verbose
+    - name: Run tests (all features)
+      run: cargo test --verbose --all-features
     - name: Build docs
       run: cargo doc --no-deps --verbose
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index de773b2..25b994d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ name = "cron"
 chrono = { version = "~0.4", default-features = false, features = ["clock"] }
 nom = "~7"
 once_cell = "1.10"
+serde = {version = "1.0.164", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 chrono-tz = "~0.6"
+serde_test = "1.0.164"
+
+# Dev-dependency for feature "serde".
+# Optional dev-dependencies are not supported yet.
+# Cargo feature request is available at https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/1596
+postcard = { version = "1.0.10", default-features = false, features = ["use-std"] }
+
+[features]
+serde = ["dep:serde"]
+
+
diff --git a/src/schedule.rs b/src/schedule.rs
index eb833fd..893a2f6 100644
--- a/src/schedule.rs
+++ b/src/schedule.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ use chrono::{DateTime, Datelike, Timelike, Utc};
 use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter, Result as FmtResult};
 use std::ops::Bound::{Included, Unbounded};
 
+#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+use core::fmt;
+#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+use serde::{
+    de::{self, Visitor},
+    Deserialize, Serialize, Serializer,
+};
+
 use crate::ordinal::*;
 use crate::queries::*;
 use crate::time_unit::*;
@@ -351,6 +359,11 @@ impl Schedule {
     pub fn timeunitspec_eq(&self, other: &Schedule) -> bool {
         self.fields == other.fields
     }
+
+    /// Returns a reference to the source cron expression.
+    pub fn source(&self) -> &str {
+        &self.source
+    }
 }
 
 impl Display for Schedule {
@@ -522,13 +535,143 @@ fn days_in_month(month: Ordinal, year: Ordinal) -> u32 {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+struct ScheduleVisitor;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+impl<'de> Visitor<'de> for ScheduleVisitor {
+    type Value = Schedule;
+
+    fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        formatter.write_str("a valid cron expression")
+    }
+
+    // Supporting `Deserializer`s shall provide an owned `String`.
+    //
+    // The `Schedule` will decode from a `&str` to it,
+    // then store the owned `String` as `Schedule::source`.
+    fn visit_string<E>(self, v: String) -> Result<Self::Value, E>
+    where
+        E: de::Error,
+    {
+        Schedule::try_from(v).map_err(de::Error::custom)
+    }
+
+    // `Deserializer`s not providing an owned `String`
+    // shall provide a `&str`.
+    //
+    // The `Schedule` will decode from the `&str`,
+    // then clone into the heap to store as an owned `String`
+    // as `Schedule::source`.
+    fn visit_str<E>(self, v: &str) -> Result<Self::Value, E>
+    where
+        E: de::Error,
+    {
+        Schedule::try_from(v).map_err(de::Error::custom)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+impl Serialize for Schedule {
+    fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
+    where
+        S: Serializer,
+    {
+        serializer.serialize_str(self.source())
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for Schedule {
+    fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
+    where
+        D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
+    {
+        // Hint that the `Deserialize` type `Schedule`
+        // would benefit from taking ownership of
+        // buffered data owned by the `Deserializer`:
+        //
+        // The deserialization "happy path" decodes from a `&str`,
+        // then stores the source as owned `String`.
+        //
+        // Thus, the optimized happy path receives an owned `String`
+        // if the `Deserializer` in use supports providing one.
+        deserializer.deserialize_string(ScheduleVisitor)
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
     use chrono::Duration;
+    #[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+    use serde_test::{assert_tokens, Token};
 
     use super::*;
     use std::str::FromStr;
 
+    #[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+    #[test]
+    fn test_ser_de_schedule_tokens() {
+        let schedule = Schedule::from_str("* * * * * * *").expect("valid format");
+        assert_tokens(&schedule, &[Token::String("* * * * * * *")])
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+    #[test]
+    fn test_invalid_ser_de_schedule_tokens() {
+        use serde_test::assert_de_tokens_error;
+
+        assert_de_tokens_error::<Schedule>(
+            &[Token::String(
+                "definitively an invalid value for a cron schedule!",
+            )],
+            "Invalid expression: Invalid cron expression.",
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+    #[test]
+    fn test_ser_de_schedule_shorthand() {
+        let serialized = postcard::to_stdvec(&Schedule::try_from("@hourly").expect("valid format"))
+            .expect("serializable schedule");
+
+        let schedule: Schedule =
+            postcard::from_bytes(&serialized).expect("deserializable schedule");
+
+        let starting_date = Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2017, 2, 25, 22, 29, 36).unwrap();
+        assert!([
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2017, 2, 25, 23, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2017, 2, 26, 0, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2017, 2, 26, 1, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+        ]
+        .into_iter()
+        .eq(schedule.after(&starting_date).take(3)));
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+    #[test]
+    fn test_ser_de_schedule_period_values_range() {
+        let serialized =
+            postcard::to_stdvec(&Schedule::try_from("0 0 0 1-31/10 * ?").expect("valid format"))
+                .expect("serializable schedule");
+
+        let schedule: Schedule =
+            postcard::from_bytes(&serialized).expect("deserializable schedule");
+
+        let starting_date = Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2020, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0).unwrap();
+        assert!([
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2020, 1, 11, 0, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2020, 1, 21, 0, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2020, 1, 31, 0, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2020, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2020, 2, 11, 0, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2020, 2, 21, 0, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+            Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2020, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0).unwrap(),
+        ]
+        .into_iter()
+        .eq(schedule.after(&starting_date).take(7)));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_next_and_prev_from() {
         let expression = "0 5,13,40-42 17 1 Jan *";
@@ -556,9 +699,7 @@ mod test {
     #[test]
     fn test_next_after_past_date_next_year() {
         // Schedule after 2021-10-27
-        let starting_point = Utc
-            .with_ymd_and_hms(2021, 10, 27, 0, 0, 0)
-            .unwrap();
+        let starting_point = Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(2021, 10, 27, 0, 0, 0).unwrap();
 
         // Triggers on 2022-06-01. Note that the month and day are smaller than
         // the month and day in `starting_point`.