Tarana Community Farmers Market

Tarana Community Farmers Market has traded from the grounds of the Tarana Rural Fire Service shed on Sodwalls Road since 2015, growing from modest beginnings into a monthly event with more than 50 stallholders. The market sits in the small village of Tarana, roughly midway between Bathurst, Lithgow and Oberon in the NSW Central Tablelands, and runs on the fourth Sunday of every month from 9am to 1pm.

Direct from the farm to the trestle table

The stall list reads like a snapshot of the surrounding farmland: free-range eggs, farm meats, fruit and vegetables, jams and preserves, cakes and sweets, bread and salami, and local wine, sold by the same people who grew, raised or made them. Shoppers can talk directly to the producer behind each stall rather than a retailer, which is the whole point of a market built around a rural fire shed rather than a shopping strip. Shaded seating and live buskers give the morning a genuine village-fair feel, and the market draws visitors from Bathurst, Lithgow and Oberon as well as locals.

Market at a glance

2015Founded

50+Stallholders

4th SunMonthly trading day

9am-1pmTrading hours

A market that funds its own fire brigade

Money raised at the market goes back into the Tarana Rural Fire Service and other community projects, including equipment for the volunteer brigade that serves this small, fire-prone corner of the Central Tablelands. It is a rare case where a farmers market and a fire brigade run on the same roster of volunteers, and buying a jar of jam on a Sunday morning quietly helps keep that brigade equipped.

Because Tarana is a small village with a market that runs only once a month, it is worth confirming the date directly with the organisers before making the drive out, particularly around long weekends or fire season when RFS commitments can affect the schedule. No entry fee or wheelchair-accessibility details are published by the market, so visitors with specific access needs should check directly beforehand.