Tenterfield Farmers and Producers Market

Tenterfield Farmers and Producers Market trades once a month, on the third Saturday from 8am to midday, at the Presbyterian Church Grounds on the corner of Logan and Manners Streets in Tenterfield, on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, 699km north of Sydney.

Built around what's made, grown and baked locally

The market runs on a straightforward brief: make it, bake it, grow it, sew it. That framing deliberately favours home producers and small growers over commercial resellers, and it shapes what turns up on the tables each month, including coffee, cooked food, fresh produce and eggs, plants, and handmade arts and crafts.

Tenterfield sits at 850 metres on the Northern Tablelands, cattle and superfine wool country with around 47 frost days a year, cooler and drier than the coastal towns a few hours east. Produce and preserve stalls here tend to reflect that high-country growing season rather than a subtropical one, and the surrounding district's beef and Merino wool industry is the backbone of the local economy the market draws its stallholders from.

Market at a glance

3rd SatMonthly trading day

8am-12pmTrading hours

Church GroundsVenue

6Stall categories

Good to know before you go

Because the market runs only once a month, on a single Saturday morning, stallholders tend to bring what's ready that week rather than holding stock over for next time, so the exact mix of stalls can shift from one month to the next. Tenterfield has been a stopover town on the New England Highway since its 1884 rail link between Sydney and Brisbane, so it's a reasonable place to break a longer drive and time it around market day.

Neither an entry fee nor accessibility details are published anywhere online, so it's worth checking directly via the market's Facebook page before visiting if either matters to your plans. Tenterfield itself is also the town where Sir Henry Parkes delivered his 1889 Federation Speech, if you're planning a longer stop around the market date.