Overview
UPDATE, Friday, July 26, 2024: Rivermakers Farmers and Artisan Markets are now occurring monthly, not weekly as first planned. This article has been updated to reflect that change.
Since 2021, maybe you've made the trip to Colmslie Road in Morningside to enjoy a drink at Revel Brewing Co's second site. Or, you could've headed to the waterside Rivermarkers precinct in Brisbane's inner southeast for spirits at Bavay Distillery, a ceramics workshop at Mas & Miek or barbecued meat from Low & Slow Meat Co. A couple of times over the past few years, markets might've also beckoned — and if it's shopping at stalls that gets you excited, you'll soon have a monthly reason to visit.
On Sunday, July 21, 2024, the Rivermakers Farmers and Artisan Markets will debut. On the third Sunday of each month afterwards, the markets will return. In the process, Goodwill Projects adds another site to its hefty range of pop-up browsing and buying spots around Brisbane. It's also behind the Brisbane City Markets, Milton Markets, Carseldine Farmers and Artisan Markets, West End Markets and Westoria. Nundah Farmers Markets is on its list, too, as is Redcliffe Farmers and Artisan Markets.
Out of town, Goodwill Projects also puts on the Kuraby Farmers Markets, Beenleigh Night Markets, HOTA Farmers and Artisan Markets, and Surfers Paradise Beachfront Markets. So yes, it knows a thing or two about bringing stallholders together — especially growers and makers slinging their wares.
In Morningside, the company will set up shop from 7am–1pm monthly, welcoming 150-plus vendors such as Lunar Farms Organics, Good Growin' Gourmet Mushrooms and Bellmere Honey. That's your organic zucchinis, capsicums and tomatoes covered, plus everything from oyster to shiitake mushrooms — and the tastiest bee product there is as well.
Other stalls at the dog-friendly markets will serve up deli goods, fresh seafood, preserves and handmade pasta — and also designer garments and jewellery.
Entry will be free, as will parking in the 450 spaces. And once you're wandering around with a basket in your hand, you'll be getting your groceries and other items with the Brisbane River providing a view.
The full Rivermakers precinct sprawls across a patch of land at the end of Junction Road that first housed a lime factory back in 1917. Since then, it's been used for alcohol distillation, radio broadcasting, naval barracks and a migrant hostel, and as the base for Hans Continental Smallgoods. Now, the 30-hectare heritage-listed spot is about to become your new monthly market go-to.
Rivermakers Farmers and Artisan Markets will run from 7am–1pm on the third Sunday of every month from Sunday, July 21, 2024 at Rivermakers, 82 Colmslie Road, Morningside — head to the markets' website and Facebook page for more details.