Paul and Vance Mayse

Past

Vance and Minnie Belle Mayse started their farming expertise in 1940 at the 4th Street Farmers Market in downtown Evansville, IN. They were among other farmers who participated at this farmers market where they serviced the Tri-State area with their homegrown fruits and vegetables.

In 1977, Vance’s son, Paul and Sherrill Mayse, decided to open a small farm market located on St. Joseph Avenue. At the market, Paul offered homegrown vegetables such as tomatoes, potatoes, green beans, squash, zucchini, cucumbers and the most popular of all, sweet corn. Each year, the market became more successful as the Mayse's offered their homegrown vegetables grown right on the farm.

At Christmas, 2005, Mayse Farm Market was devastated with a fire, which ended in burning the farm market completely to the ground. But, the Mayse’s did not let that stop them. The market was re-built that same year and they were soon back in business in May 2006.

Paul and Sherrill Mayse

Today

We are a fourth generation working farm and farm market.

We have four major crops that we offer throughout the season!

Spring - The springtime brings in our signature greenhouse tomatoes. The next crop is our fresh strawberries picked right from our field! We also offer flower hanging baskets and ferns. The bees are constanlty buzzing around on our farm where we offer honey from the beehives right on our farm year-round!

Summer- As the weather starts to heat up, our sweet corn becomes ready to eat. We offer Bi-color and Silver Queen sweet corn. As the summer progresses,we begin bursting with our homegrown tomatoes, green beans, blackberries, squash, zucchini, garlic, southern peaches, local cantaloupe and watermelons and more!

Fall- Over 20 years ago we started become involved with agri-tourism and we introduce "Fall Family Fun on the Farm" at Mayse Farm Market. We offer a 5 acre corn maze, pumpkin picking, over 20+ activities, farm animals, mums, and other fall veggies in our market. Our weekly school tours and weekend “Fun on the Farm” activities make this a memorable family-fun weekend event with memories to last a lifetime.

Winter- In the winter we offer our homemade winter sausage during the holidays. Our bakery is busy making cookie trays for local businesses, and baking pies for holiday family festivities.

Our motto at Mayse Farm Market is, “ Where you can find down on the farm freshness and that homegrown flavor in an authentic country atmosphere.” We want you to experience our Fun on the Farm!

"SERVING HOMEGROWN FRESHNESS TO THE COMMUNITY FOR OVER 8 DECADES; AND NOW 4 GENERATIONS!"