FARRMS Webinars
We offer webinars to help you grow. Our topics include marketing local foods, sustainable business planning, natural resources management, USDA grants for small-scale farmers, medicinal plants and more. Scroll down to view the recordings and handouts from previous webinars or watch them on our YouTube Channel (farrms.nd)
We have grouped our webinar recordings by topic to help you find what you need. Click on the topic to skip to those webinars.
Marketing and Farm Business Planning
Local Food for Local Children:
ND Farm To School Webinars Part 1 of 2
Feb. 23, 2022
Be inspired! Learn about Farm to School at Bismarck Public Schools with Claire Lowstuter, Bismarck Local Food Coordinator, Michelle Wagner, Child Nutrition Program Director, Bismarck Public Schools, and Jared Stoll & Mary Podoll, Stoll Farms.
Local Food for Local Children:
ND Farm To School Webinars Part 2 of 2
Feb. 28, 2022
Get started! Learn what to expect and how you can prepare to market to local schools. Our farmer panel includes Mary Podoll - Stoll Farms, Bismarck, ND; John Roswech -South 40 Beef, Mott, ND, and Janelle Anderson - Rustic Acres, Rolette ND.
Success Strategies for
ND Farmers Market Vendors
Jun. 16, 2020
North Dakota farmers market managers and vendors offer guidance for a successful farmers market season. Whether it's your first or fifth market season this webinar has useful info for you!
Social Media Marketing for Local Food Businesses, Part 1
Oct. 20, 2020
Erica Kale of Kale Social Co. will show you how to engage your customers and grow your following on Facebook and Instagram.
Social Media Marketing for Local Food Businesses, Part 2
Oct. 20, 2020
Clint Saunders, Associate Professor of Art and Photography at Dakota College at Bottineau discusses how to capture your customers’ attention by taking better photos for social media.
Online Marketing for Cottage Foods
Aug. 6, 2020
Learn about online sales of cottage foods with Jayme Calavera of First District Health Unit. Kara Winkler, Glimpse of the Prairie and Jen Skoog, Family Roots Farm discuss online marketing of meat, eggs, and more.
Digital Marketing for Local Food Businesses
Jun. 18, 2020
Facilitator Dane Johnson discusses websites, online shops, and social media with Jazmine Schultz, Prairie Sky Breads; Rachel Utecht, Off the Deck Hot Sauce; and Holly Mawby, gardendwellers FARM.
Farm Finance 102: Part 1
Mar. 24, 2021
In Part I, Jen Skoog of Family Roots Farm discusses the Schedule F and how to prepare for tax filing season. She also talks about balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and debt to asset ratios used to assess your farm's financial health.
Farm Finance 102: Part 2
Mar. 24, 2021
In Part II, Jen Skoog discusses how create enterprise budgets and how to use partial budgets to aid in decision making. She also discusses cash flow budgets. We provide a link to a Google Drive folder full of free farm financial templates and links to other farm financial education resources.
Farming Skills and Natural Resources Management
Lunch-n-Learn: Pollinators
Sept. 28, 2021
Sarah Hamilton Buxton of the Xerces Society and USDA NRCS discusses why pollinators matter and how to improve pollinator habitat on your farm.
Lunch-n-Learn: Soil Health
Plant Medicine for Beginners with Linda Black Elk
Aug. 31, 2021
Derek Lowstuter of Black Bison Organics and Darrell Oswald of Menoken Farm discuss the five soil health principles and how to improve soil health on your farm.
Mar. 16, 2021
Linda Black Elk teaches us edible and medicinal uses for some common plants found on the Northern Plains.
Grants for Farmers
Financing Your Farm Business:
Loans and Grants
USDA Pandemic Response and
Safety Grant Part 1
USDA Pandemic Response and Safety Grant Part 2
April 6, 2023
This presentation from Farm Beginnings 2023 covers the difference between loans and grants. It also discusses tips for preparing grant and loan applications with examples of successfully funded businesses.
Sept. 16, 2021
The USDA Pandemic Response and Safety (PRS) Grant is for food processors, distributors, farmers markets, and producers who have incurred costs to respond to coronavirus, including for measures to protect workers against COVID-19. Learn who is eligible and how to get started.
Oct. 12, 2021
We walk you through the simple two-page application form for the Pandemic Response and Safety Grant. Applications are due November 22, 2021.
NC-SARE Farmer Rancher Grant
Nov. 19, 2020
Part A: Clair Keene, ND SARE State Co-coordinator discusses the Farmer Rancher grant and online application system
NC-SARE Farmer Rancher Grant
Nov. 19, 2020
Part B: Three local farmers describe their grant proposals and what they learned from writing the grant.