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Best Farmers Markets in Tasmania: The Complete Guide
From Salamanca to Harvest Launceston, island produce at its finest.
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Tasmania's farmers market scene is world-class relative to the island's small population, reflecting the extraordinary quality of Tasmanian primary produce and the food culture that has built around the state's salmon, cheese, berries, wine, and heritage varieties of vegetables and fruit that the island's isolation and cool climate has preserved. A Saturday morning at Salamanca Market is among Australia's finest market experiences.
Salamanca Market, the Saturday morning Salamanca Market on Salamanca Place is Tasmania's most famous and most visited market, drawing locals and visitors alike to the historic sandstone warehouse precinct at the foot of Mount Wellington. The market combines fresh produce, artisan food products (Tasmanian leatherwood honey, Ashgrove cheese, Nichols Poultry, The Berry Farm), craft stalls, buskers, and the social atmosphere of Hobart's most beloved public space. Rain or shine, from 8:30am to 3pm, the market is the anchor of Hobart's Saturday social life.
Farm Gate Market, the Sunday morning Farm Gate Market on Bathurst Street in the CBD provides the genuine primary producer market that Salamanca, with its broader craft and lifestyle mix, only partially delivers. Farm Gate is exclusively food: bread from Wild Innocent Flour, pastured meat from Dorset Valley, organic vegetables from Kindred Organics, Bruny Island Cheese Company products, and the weekly revelation of Tasmanian seasonal produce at its most direct.
Harvest Launceston Farmers Market, the Saturday morning Launceston market in Princes Square provides northern Tasmania with an equivalent farmers market experience, featuring Tamar Valley producers, the Tamar Valley wine country's direct-to-consumer sales, and the full range of northern Tasmanian agricultural produce.
Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival Market, the annual mid-winter market in the Huon Valley (June) is a distinctly Tasmanian event: an outdoor market in the cold and dark of the apple region's winter, celebrating the food and community culture of one of Australia's most productive and historic fruit-growing regions.
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