Daylesford Farmers Market - 4th Saturday

Daylesford Farmers Market takes over the grounds of Daylesford Primary School at 102 Vincent Street on the fourth Saturday of every month, 9am to 1pm. The Rotary Club of Daylesford runs it, which puts the market in the same category as a good country show: volunteers on the gate, proceeds going back into the district, and a stall list built on who is actually growing nearby.

Farm gates and cellar doors, gathered into one schoolyard

Daylesford sits in the middle of Victoria's spa country, a district with the largest concentration of mineral springs in Australia and a food and wine economy that grew up around visitors coming for them. That is the catchment this market draws from. Stalls bring produce straight from farm gates and cellar doors in the surrounding hills, alongside prepared food, drinks, handmade goods, and music or performance through the morning. The school ground is a compact site, so the market is walkable in one loop rather than a sprawl.

The fourth Saturday timing matters more here than it would elsewhere, because Daylesford has several markets running on different weekends and they are easy to confuse from a distance. This is the produce market, held monthly in a schoolyard on the main street, and it is a different event from the town's weekly Sunday market and from the permanent indoor market on Central Springs Road.

Good to know before you go

Vincent Street is the main road through Daylesford and parking on a market Saturday competes with the town's regular weekend traffic, so park a block back and walk in. Come at 9am for the produce, since a four-hour market with monthly stallholders sells out of the good things early. Bring cash for the smaller growers and a bag or basket of your own. If you are staying the weekend, the market pairs naturally with the mineral springs reserves a short drive away at Hepburn.