About City Limit Micro Farms.
Howdy y’all and welcome!
We are Quinn and Morgan from City Limit Micro Farms located here in Cicero Indiana. It’s that time of year again where our need to be outside is quickly met with the reality of the mid west’s fourth season, winter… Pairing the completely obsessed and a few Youtube videos, it is the perfect time to get back to the digital building. We first wanted to make a quick update/about post for our Cicero Farmers Market customers here on our website as that is our main market we set to attend. If you have not had the chance to float around the rest of the available pages, we have several different purposes that we plan to use this site for! It is quite minimal at the moment and a work in progress, but the plan is to create a place for all farming updates pertaining to in the field, market schedules, future produce pre-order options and an online shop for Calm Creation, Morgan’s framed flowers and custom pressed floral work. With that being said, we will still make sure to post updates on Facebook and Instagram, so make sure to follow us there as well if you are so inclined. Secondly, we envision this site becoming our main “social media” outlet that will hopefully be a bit more personal and in-depth, from both on and off the farm. Boring? Perhaps. Hah! But ultimately, authentically us. 
It was almost too perfect for our small town to finally start up a farmers market just as the gardening bug bit hard enough to push us to sell our own fruits of labor. Last year was our first “big” go around managing our very small space with the goal to grow enough produce to consistently show up at each market with several different types of vegetables. With the combination of Morgan attending art events through Calm Creation plus setting up a roadside veggie stand at the house, the sound of a weekly farmers market quickly became an adventure we wanted to take. Having a name for our farm in mind and several hours planning what, when and where to grow our handful of selected cultivars we said screw it! We modified our traveling van into a market goin’ van, and shifted our mind sets seeing now we had a due date each week for the summer.
Expectations were low and confidence was scarce as both Morgan and I have no official background in vegetable farming other than being obsessed backyard growers. There was a good chance the idea was going to be a complete bust! On top of that, as two not-so-social people, the sound of a self inflicted commitment to show our faces each week seemed daunting. At the end of the day we knew that attempting to grow produce for our small town would be more fulfilling than any other job we’ve had in the past. Despite the fact that it was only going to be part time and at the tiny scale our property would allow, it was 110% worth it and we are already counting down the days until the next season! We are absolutely grateful for everyone who came out and bought from us week after week. You helped turn what seemed at first a long summer into a blink of an eye! They say time flies when you’re having fun… and ain’t that the truth!
On top of y’alls weekly support and in line with the true small town fashion, our wonderful row crop neighbors here in town are helping us out big time by giving us the opportunity to expand our operation just across town! Hah! and just like that, the “s” in “micro farms” is now officially living up to its name! We’re definitely still micro, but this added area is going to nearly double our space and allow us to grow several new vegetables to bring to market this coming season! With our limited space last year, we really needed to be methodical with what we were growing. Early on, we determined that each bed required planting a few different times throughout the year in order to keep up with the schedule. The longer maturing crops such as cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, plus a handful of others, didn’t make the cut as they would take up precious bed space for the whole market season. The addition of another ten, 25 foot beds is going to enable us to bring a more diverse menu, especially during the summer months! Thank you, thank you and thank you again!
As Robert Hunter wrote and Spud Boy sang “Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right”, whether you like it or not, your veggie hook ups are dead heads :p The point is that we really did not see ourselves enjoying this experience as much as we did. Before all of this we had our minds set solely on trying to travel as much as possible and being in Indiana as little as possible. Now a few years older and finding the love and values for small town living, where we were born and raised, vegetable farming has quickly become an obscure, yet satisfactory way to scratch that itch without having to leave Hamilton County! Who would have thought that you could have as big of an adventure within a thirty mile radius as we did driving thousands of miles across this beautiful country? We are extremely lucky and can’t thank everyone enough for allowing us dorks to stay on the bus and keep truckin’ on! Seriously, thank you
