About Us

These days, it’s rare to find a project designed to deliberately slow things down. ‘Going global’ comes before staying local; commerce comes before community; and before you know it you’re into the rush and grumble of a supermarket fast-lane wondering how it all got so impersonal. The Mulgrave Farmers Market takes the ‘con‘ out of consuming, providing a fair deal for everyone, keeping money local, and helping to grow community spirit at the same time.

Not only does this new market bring farm-fresh produce to your backyard and create a vibrant social hub, it offers producers the opportunity to sell directly to their customers. Every Sunday - rain, hail or shine - the market will bring together primary producers from all over the region. You‘ll hardly have to step foot in a supermarket again.

We invite anybody who wants to be a stallholder or participant at this exciting new market, which, unlike any other farmers market in Melbourne, will be held every week, to register via our online registration form. So whether you grow vegies, keep chooks, bake pies, sell plants or play a flamin‘ tambourine, get in touch. See if you fit the criteria at Become a Stallholder. 

As well as supporting local community groups and independent traders, Mulgrave Farmers’ Market will provide education on environmental initiatives and social issues. All proceeds raised from the market will go towards funding community projects supported by the Wise Foundation.

THE WISE FOUNDATION

A charity founded in April 2008, The Wise Foundation has as its core mission: ‘Creating positive social change through economic innovation.’ 

It brings together much of the community development work of The Body Shop Australia, as well as individual philanthropic activities of the Wise family. It is currently involved in several programmes that aim to strengthen community and assist marginalised Australians, which include:

• Bizness Babes – a program that supports young mums and women to develop micro-enterprise (www.Biznessbabes.com.au).
• Footsteps Enterprises – a specialist organisation that assists indigenous Australians in gaining business skills and establishing enterprise (www.footstepsenterprises.com.au).
• Bleeding Heart Cafe and Gallery – a social enterprise and training organisation that allows young people to develop skills in hospitality (www.bleedingheart.com.au).
• Children on the Edge, East Timor – a daytime children‘s centre and playscheme for children whose lives have been disrupted by the upheavals of the East Timor (www.childrenontheedge.org).