Mylor Market
A free first-Sunday country market on the Mylor Oval, in an Adelaide Hills town of about a thousand people.
About this market
Mylor is a town of about 1,067 people roughly 25 kilometres southeast of Adelaide, and once a month its oval turns into the town's shopfront. The Mylor Market runs the first Sunday of every month from 9am to 1pm on the Mylor Oval on Strathalbyn Road, and Adelaide Hills Council lists it as a free event under arts and culture, community and family friendly, which is a reasonable description of a market where the produce is home grown and the gifts are homemade.
What is on the tables
The council's listing describes the range plainly: plants, homemade gifts, crafts, preserves, baked goods and home grown produce. That is a growers-and-makers market rather than a retail one, and its size follows the town. The venue is the local oval, which the council describes as home to a cricket and archery club and as an open space with public toilets and clubrooms available for hire, so the market shares its ground with the same clubs that use it the rest of the month. The first-Sunday cadence is consistent across the council's own event listing, the regional tourism site and the town's encyclopedia entry, which is more agreement than most small country markets manage.
Market at a glance
The town's most famous former resident drew a line across the whole state.
Mylor was the home of George Goyder, the Surveyor General who drew the Goyder Line, the boundary that told South Australian farmers where reliable rainfall stopped and cropping was not worth attempting. The town also hosted an Adelaide Botanic Gardens demonstration orchard from 1899 to 1930, set up to test which fruit varieties were worth growing commercially.
Good to know before you go
This is a one-morning-a-month market, so the date matters more than the time: the first Sunday, 9am to 1pm, and nothing on the other three weekends. The oval is on Strathalbyn Road through the middle of Mylor, with parking on the grass and around the ground rather than in a car park, and the site has public toilets because it is a working sports ground the rest of the time. Entry is free. Bring cash, since a market this size runs on stallholders rather than businesses with terminals, and bring a bag for plants, which are a staple here. If you are planning a wider Adelaide Hills day, note that the region's markets are spread across different weekends rather than clustered, so the first Sunday belongs to Mylor while Stirling's market runs on the fourth.
Frequently Asked Questions
- When is the Mylor Market on?
- The first Sunday of every month, 9am to 1pm, on the Mylor Oval on Strathalbyn Road.
- Is there an entry fee?
- No. Adelaide Hills Council lists the market as a free event.
- What is sold there?
- Plants, homemade gifts, crafts, preserves, baked goods and home grown produce, which is the usual range for an Adelaide Hills country market.