Yarragon Craft and Produce Market
Up to sixty stalls of Gippsland produce and handmade work on the fourth Saturday, indoors in winter and in the park through summer.
About this market
Yarragon exists because of the railway line pushed through in 1878, and the station that opened there on 1 August that year was called Waterloo before confusion with another Waterloo forced a rename in December 1883. The market that runs in the village now trades on the fourth Saturday of the month, 9am to 1pm, with up to sixty stalls spread inside and outside along Campbell Street.
A produce market with a craft half
The split in the name is real rather than decorative. One side of the market is Gippsland food: fresh produce, preserves, bread and plants from a district that has been dairy and grazing country since the forest was cleared. The other is handmade, and it runs broader than the usual candles-and-soap band, taking in wool, jewellery, antiques and clothing. Because the market is monthly rather than weekly, stallholders bring depth rather than a standing minimum, and the antiques and second-hand corner in particular rewards a slow walk.
Market at a glance
The venue moves with the weather, which is worth knowing before you arrive. Through the colder months the market sets up in the public hall on Campbell Street, and over summer it shifts outdoors to Waterloo Park. Both are inside the village, so neither move takes you far, but the indoor months feel like a different market: tighter, warmer and easier to browse in the rain.
The market's summer home, Waterloo Park, carries the name the town itself once had. Yarragon's railway station opened as Waterloo in August 1878 and was renamed Yarragon on 17 December 1883 because another Victorian station of the same name kept causing mix-ups.
Worth knowing before you go
Nine to one is the whole window, and the produce stalls thin out well before the end, so a late arrival gets the craft half rather than both. Yarragon sits directly on the Princes Highway roughly halfway between Warragul and Moe, which makes it an easy stop on a Gippsland drive and also means highway traffic on a Saturday morning; park in the village rather than circling the hall. The strip of antique, craft and produce shops that gave Yarragon its "village" reputation from the 1990s is open the same morning, so the market is realistically half a day rather than an hour. Carry cash for the smaller stalls. This is Gunaikurnai and Bunurong country.
Frequently Asked Questions
- When is the Yarragon Craft and Produce Market on?
- The fourth Saturday of the month, 9am to 1pm, on Campbell Street in Yarragon.
- Where exactly does it set up?
- The public hall on Campbell Street through the colder months, and Waterloo Park over summer. Both sites are within the village, a short walk from the Princes Highway shops.
- What can I expect to find?
- Fresh produce, preserves, bread, plants and wool, plus handmade craft, jewellery, antiques and clothing across up to 60 stalls set up inside and outside.