Dungog Local Growers Market

Dungog Local Growers Market has traded every Saturday morning from the CWA grounds on Dowling Street since it began on 1 September 2012. Run entirely by volunteers from the Local Living Dungog group under the Dungog Shire Community Centre, the stall exists to give small-scale local growers a regular outlet rather than to compete with the produce sections at bigger regional markets.

A stall built around one rule

The market's defining condition is simple and strictly kept: whatever lands on a table has to have been grown within Dungog Shire itself, whether that's a backyard vegetable patch, a small market garden or a working farm. Typical stalls carry vegetables, fruit, herbs, cut flowers, honey, jams, eggs and seedlings, and a bread van from Fosterton Farm Bakery has also traded nearby. Payment across the stall is cash only, and shoppers are encouraged to bring their own bags.

Market at a glance

2012Trading since

Dungog ShireProduce grown within

Cash onlyPayment

215kmFrom Sydney

Good to know before you go

Dungog itself sits on the Williams River in the Hunter region, about 215 kilometres north of Sydney and 76 kilometres from Newcastle, so a Saturday trip out here tends to be planned around a wider day in the Hunter Valley or Barrington Tops rather than a quick stop. The market is small by design, a genuine community stall rather than a large-scale event, which is exactly what keeps it going as a fixture of Dungog's Saturday mornings well over a decade after it started.

Confirm the current trading hours before visiting, since the stall's exact opening time has been reported slightly differently across listings, and stall numbers can shift with the season depending on what local growers have ready to sell that week.