The Finding Your Future in Food Systems series from North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN) helps aspiring food systems professionals explore careers in community food systems and gain insight into the work and the diverse paths people take into the field.

In partnership with GrownBy, Grapevine’s Mary Godnick answers key questions about how ads can significantly enhance your marketing efforts and be leveraged for good when used strategically during this March 2026 webinar.

In partnership with the Food System Communicators Community of Practice through the University of Vermont Institute for Agroecology, Grapevine’s Brooklyn Maloley shares practical strategies for collecting emails more effectively and increasing engagement during the February 2026 FoodComms Cafe.

In this workshop recording from the 38th Annual California Small Farm Conference, hear directly from a farmer using the new Small Organic Farmer Marketing Toolkit, developed by CCOF and CAFF, to strengthen their outreach, alongside Grapevine’s own Brooklyn Maloley.

Whether you’re working with Grapevine or on your own to set up a website or email marketing, you may be wondering which photos to select and how large they should be. Will your existing photos work? What should be in your photos? Read on to learn our tips!

Getting your farm photos ready for use in your website and marketing emails is easy — just download the free software, then crop, scale, and export. Here’s our step-by-step guide!

If you’re wondering which email/SMS platform to use for your farm marketing, it depends on the website platform you’re using.

Wondering where to focus your marketing efforts? We suggest starting with a proven framework!

Learn effective strategies that will help you avoid email marketing pitfalls, land in more inboxes, and ultimately drive more sales and growth for your farm business.

Especially for small and local businesses like farms, SMS (text message) marketing is a highly effective way to reach your customers.

When designing your emails, design can work in your favor, making emails engaging and easy to read, or the complete opposite: make your message hard to get across and possibly leading to potential clients hitting the unsubscribe button. Let’s avoid that!

When done correctly, email marketing is an incredibly powerful tool that allows you to connect directly with customers as often as you’d like. In this post, we’ll cover how to know if your emails are performing well — and what to do if they’re not!

When we say “optimize,” we are referring primarily to the process of compressing file size enough so that it loads quickly, but not so much that it doesn’t look crisp. We also consider visual consistency.

Here are our top tips to leverage Drip to build your subscriber list, boost farm revenue, and more.