This March is all about St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and National Nutrition Month in the food content creation world. Work ahead with these March email newsletter ideas for food bloggers and food content creators.
March is often a challenging month for food content. It’s still winter but people are growing tired of root vegetables and they’re looking for lighter, brighter flavors after months of comfort food. But, this year (2024), Easter and Ramadan are both in March so that creates a huge opportunity for newsletter content creation!
EASTER & RAMADAN
Easter and Ramadan are both prominent holidays taking place in March. Ramadan starts on March 10th and runs until April 9th. Good Friday is March 29th and Easter Sunday is on March 31st) Each have their own unique food based traditions. That means lots of content ideas!
- the food!
- entertaining – small groups, large groups, casual, budget friendly, upscale, planning and prepping
- kid friendly projects
- classic traditions
- modern twists on tradition
- don’t forget leftovers!
SPRING PRODUCE IS COMING!
Early, locally grown spring produce starts to appear towards the end of the month and is very location dependent but, most North Americans will start to see:
- asparagus
- California strawberries
- locally grown tomatoes (where greenhouse agriculture is prominent)
- locally grown cucumbers (where greenhouse agriculture is prominent)
- locally grown peppers (where greenhouse agriculture is prominent)
- root veggies, hardy greens (cabbage, kale), leeks, squash, potatoes, and citrus fruit are all still in season
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
St. Patrick’s is on March 17th. Here are some ideas you can feature:
- anything green!
- incorporating Guinness into recipes
- traditional Irish foods like soda bread, corned beef and cabbage, beef stew, Shepherds Pie, etc
- creative novelty treats celebrating the day for kids
NATIONAL NUTRITION MONTH
For health and wellness professionals, March is Nutrition Month in Canada and the US. Your professional body will probably have lots of pertinent info and talking points that you can use in your email communication!
TAILOR YOUR MARCH NEWSLETTER CONTENT FOR YOUR EMAIL AUDIENCE
As always, these are ideas to help you brainstorm. Adapt them to fit your audience and your niche, which you know better than anyone else.
Remember that your email audience may be different from the audience that finds you through search.
Focus on what your newsletter subscribers respond to. If you have the data available in your newsletter marketing platform, look at which content they responded to this time last year. Then create newsletter content that’s a good fit!
Now’s the time to get started. Plan out your March newsletter calendar and batch write your emails. Schedule them and you’re good to go!
** remember that you cannot use your direct Amazon affiliate product links in your emails but you can link to blog posts that contain Amazon affiliate links and you can link to your Amazon influencer shop. Check the rules of any other affiliate programs you use before including your links.
More Email Newsletter Ideas
- April Newsletter Ideas for Food Bloggers
- May Newsletter Ideas For Food Bloggers
- June Newsletter Ideas for Food Bloggers
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