Grafton Farmers and Growers Market

Grafton Farmers and Growers Market trades on the second Thursday of each month from the car park of Christ Church Cathedral on Fitzroy Street, in the heart of Grafton, New South Wales.

A Clarence Valley market built around local growers

Grafton sits on the Clarence River in the Northern Rivers region, an area of river flats, dairy country and cropping land that has long supplied growers to markets like this one. Stallholders typically bring produce sourced from across the Clarence Valley: organic pork, Northern Rivers rice, Pillar Valley bananas, free-range and organic eggs, award-winning jams and preserves, local honey, mushrooms and a rotating range of seasonal fruit and vegetables. Grafton itself is known as the Jacaranda City, its streets lined with jacaranda trees that bloom each October and November, and the market gives visitors passing through the Clarence Valley another reason to detour into town. Because it only runs once a month rather than every week, growers tend to bring what's genuinely ready that week rather than holding stock back, so the stall mix shifts with the season.

Market at a glance

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4,261Facebook followers

1884Cathedral built

Trading beside a heritage cathedral

The market's Fitzroy Street car park venue puts it directly beside Christ Church Cathedral, a Victorian Gothic Revival building designed by architect John Horbury Hunt and completed in 1884 after a decade of construction. The cathedral was added to the NSW State Heritage Register in 2003, and its brick spire is one of the more recognisable landmarks in central Grafton, giving the monthly market a genuinely distinctive backdrop rather than a generic car park setting.

Because Grafton Farmers and Growers Market runs only on the second Thursday of the month, it's worth marking the date ahead of time rather than assuming it's a weekly fixture. The market maintains an active Facebook page with several thousand followers, which is the most reliable place to confirm hours or any changes before a visit, particularly since trading hours and entry details aren't formally published elsewhere.