The Peel Produce Market

The Peel Produce Market is family owned and family run, and it trades every Saturday morning from 8am to 12pm at Leprechaun Park on the Dawesville foreshore. Four hours a week, one site, no rotating venues. That consistency is most of the reason it has become one of the more reliably attended weekly markets in the Peel region.

A produce market that expects you to eat there

The core is seasonal fruit and vegetables from growers in the Mandurah and Peel region, filled out with the things a produce market needs to be a morning rather than an errand: artisan bread, homemade jams and jellies, handcrafted cheeses, handmade soaps and other small-business goods. Hot breakfast, fresh coffee and juices are sold on site, and live music plays through the morning. The foreshore setting means there is somewhere to sit and eat, which not every produce market can offer.

Dawesville sits on the narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Peel-Harvey estuary, south of Mandurah, and the foreshore reserve the market uses looks out over the water. It is a strip of coast that changed permanently within living memory, and the market's setting is a direct product of that change.

Good to know before you go

Four hours is a short window and the produce stalls are strongest in the first two, so treat 8am to 10am as the shopping and the rest as breakfast. Bring your own bags and a cool bag if the drive home is longer than half an hour, because a Perth-region Saturday warms up fast. Bring cash as well as a card, since every trader takes payment separately. Leprechaun Park is on the foreshore side of Dawesville, and the surrounding streets carry the parking. If you are coming down from Mandurah, the market pairs naturally with the estuary drive rather than being a destination on its own. This is Bindjareb Noongar country.