Rivermakers Markets

Important Market Update:

We’ve made the difficult decision to postpone future Rivermakers Markets until 2025.

This pause comes as we clarify the statutory approvals in response to a single complaint by a neighbouring business.

When the Rivermakers Markets were launched, our shared vision was to create an iconic space that would alleviate the current cost of living pressure, bring family, friends and neighbours together, and provide a platform for local farmers, makers, bakers and growers to thrive. All set along the picturesque Brisbane River in the stunning Rivermakers Precinct.

While we’ve arrived here due to this complaint, it’s important we note the market and neighbouring business are not mutually exclusive. They most certainly can coexist. This was evident in the second week of trade following the popular opening day, and we look forward to demonstrating this upon the market’s return.

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported us, alongside the hundreds of vendors, sole traders and small family businesses that make up the Rivermakers markets. The local community, amazing traders, Rivermakers family and team, remain the driving force and soul behind this very special activation.

For now, our priority remains removing any future uncertainty and resuming trade as we started – as an iconic family focused farmers market.

We believe that this decision, while disappointing, is in good faith and will ensure the markets return in early 2025.

Thank you to everyone who's supported the market over the past few months! Stay tuned to our social media for updates and details.

RIVERMAKERS MARKETS HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 2025

Nothing quite hits like a farm-fresh feast post-Sunday Farmers Markets 🤤

While we're busy lining up sensational local farmers, unique artisans, and the best gourmet foodies from across SEQLD, make sure to add Sunday, 15th September to your calendar and share with your besties!

In just 3 weeks, you'll be enjoying live music, tonnes of entertainment, handpicked and handmade finds, farm direct produce, and more.

The details:
📍 Location: 82 Colmslie Road, Morningside
🌮 Featuring: 150 unique artisan and gourmet food vendors
🐕 Fun for all: Animal Farm, Jumping Castle & Children’s Rides
🅿️ Free entry & parking

We've got the farmers, you've got the friends!

Discover handcrafted goodies, fresh produce, and gourmet treats, plus enjoy live music, kids’ entertainment, and so much more tomorrow at Rivermakers Markets 7am - 1pm.

📅 Sunday, 18th August
⏰ 7am – 1pm
📍 82 Colmslie Road, Morningside
🌮150 unique artisan and gourmet food vendors
🐏 Animal Farm, Jumping Castle and Children’s Rides
🚗 Free entry & free parking

Stall Spotlight: LUNAR FARM ORGANICS...

In the family since 1951, Bonnie and Luke grow seasonal lines like celery, corn, potatoes, leafy greens, purple and white cauliflower, pumpkins, zucchini and... our personal fav...they've just planted seeds for their first watermelon crop of the season (Hello, Springtime!!) 🌽🥔🍃

Grown in their luscious red soil, the family switched to organic over conventional in 1998 when Bonnie's father questioned just what all this pesticide was doing to his crop...and his health!

Pop down and learn a "bunch" about their gorgeous produce and heaps more... THIS Sunday! 🥦

🌟 Our Top 10 FAQs 🌟

Drumroll, please... Number 1 is PARKING! 🚗🎉 We’ve added 350 extra car parks! Simply take a left at Dunhill Crescent, and voilà—plenty of PARKS abound!
Check out the rest of our FAQs to make your market day THIS Sunday a breeze! 🌈🛍️

🌟 LAST CHANCE TO WIN!! RIVERMAKERS MARKETS GOURMET GIVEAWAY! 🌟

Don’t miss out on your chance to WIN a $300 Gourmet Market Hamper in celebration of our second Rivermakers Markets! 🌟🍇

This gorgeous hamper is brimming with local delights, from farm-fresh produce and delectable provisions to artisan treats and unique handmade gifts from our talented farmers and local makers.

Swipe to check out some of the stunning artisan finds included in our hamper!

To enter:
1️⃣ Tag TWO foodie friends who would love this below 👇
2️⃣ Share this post 📢
3️⃣ Complete the entry form here: https://bit.ly/3yNaVHH

The lucky winner will be announced on Friday, 16th August and can collect their prize at Rivermakers Markets THIS Sunday, 18th August.

🐝Fancy yourself as a native honey connoisseur? Forever on the hunt for non-filtered, non-heat treated honey?

This gorgeous third-generation family beehive business is our gold medalist if Paris held the "Honey-Olympics"🏆!

Gur, his dad Arie, brother Idan, and mum Sivan source their honey from Eulo (a 1800km round trip to Brissy) which they repeat every two weeks bringing genuine seasonal varieties like Emu bush, redgum, bimblebox and a rare winter favourite, Napunyah - a native gumtree which flowers in the winter and crystallises with a super creamy texture.

Meet Gur and his beautiful family THIS Sunday at the markets!

Can’t wait a month to pat a llama?
Convinced the fairy-floss tastes better in Morningside?
Found you’ve been counting down the days till you get those river views and lush green grass vibes?

Make Sunday a mini-Ekka pit stop while stocking up on the bestest produce in town. 🦙🍏 🍓🥕☀️

Rivermakers Market
📅 Sunday, 18th August
⏰ 7am – 1pm
📍 82 Colmslie Road, Morningside
🌮150 unique artisan and gourmet food vendors
🐏 Animal Farm, Jumping Castle and Children’s Rides
🚗 Free entry & free parking

Fast Fashion? Not on our watch! This Spring, choose authentic quality and craftsmanship at Rivermakers Markets!

📅 Sunday, 18th August
⏰ 7am – 1pm
📍 82 Colmslie Road, Morningside
🌮150 unique artisan and gourmet food vendors
🐏 Animal Farm, Jumping Castle and Children’s Rides
🚗 Free entry & free parking

Meet Dave, otherwise known as the maestro of Byron Bay Green! For over 20 years, he’s been perfecting his veggie-growing skills with a symphony of classical music, sea water irrigation and harnessing the buzz of native bees🎻

His tomatoes have practically become connoisseurs of Bach and Beethoven - all thanks to their custom playlists that keep them ‘tuned’ from seedling to gorgeous perfection 🍅🎵

Grown without pesticides on his Mulimbimby farm, Dave’s farm-fresh, organic produce is ready to make its debut in your families favourite meals.

📅 Sunday, 18th August
⏰ 7am – 1pm
📍 82 Colmslie Road, Morningside
🌮150 unique artisan and gourmet food vendors
🐏 Animal Farm, Jumping Castle and Children’s Rides
🚗 Free entry & free parking

Last month, we launched what is one of Queensland’s most vibrant, premium and genuine farmers and artisan markets. Due to a neighbour’s complaint, we’ve needed to move the markets to a monthly format (every 3rd Sunday of each month). While this change has certainly been unfortunate and not what we planned, we’ve used this time to further improve aspects of the markets, especially related to traffic and ease of arrival/departure.

Therefore, after a month of planning and tremendous support from locals, visitors and vendors, we are VERY excited to be hosting our 2nd market day on Sunday, 18th August, 7am – 1pm, continuing on the 3rd Sunday of each month- until we resume weekly trade.

We’re dedicated to bringing you the same sensational stalls and authentic atmosphere, featuring the freshest farm-direct produce from SE QLD and Northern NSW. Expect to find artisan bakers, fishmongers, butchers, baristas, chefs, beekeepers, florists, artists, and designers—all coming back to Morningside.

Rivermakers Farmers and Artisan Market will feature over 150 unique stalls, offering the finest handcrafted artisan goods, freshest farm direct produce and gourmet foodie vendors from across SEQLD.

Plus, live music and kids’ entertainment with over 450 free car parks, free entry, and much, much more!

Make sure you click ‘going’ to our event Rivermakers Markets Sunday, 18th August and experience firsthand the magic of Rivermakers Markets.

📅 Sunday, 18th August
⏰ 7am – 1pm
📍 82 Colmslie Road, Morningside
🌮150 unique artisan and gourmet food vendors
🐏 Animal Farm, Jumping Castle and Children’s Rides
🚗 Free entry & free parking

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined us on the opening day! Your support and feedback for the new Rivermakers Markets has been simply incredible.

It's fair to say we're overwhelmed by the community's response and genuine desire to have our very own, very unique, and very REAL market in Morningside. Our team and vendors loved meeting many of you for the first time on the 21st of July. We're working hard to ensure this special Sunday destination becomes part of the community fabric for years to come...

You may have seen or heard that we've moved to a monthly format. We wanted to provide you with a little update. *pause to grab spectacles*

We've been made aware of a complaint by a neighbouring business regarding the zoning and a dispute around uses that are not classified as "heavy industrial."

Council isn't to blame. They're doing their job regarding zoning and the correct uses in place. As is the neighbouring business, which needs certainty that its operation isn't going to be adversely impacted by non-industrial uses... like a farmers market!

Brisbane is now Australia's fastest growing city. Morningside and surrounds have already become such an incredible place to reside. Destinations like the Rivermakers Markets can coexist with the existing uses in place, adding to the robust and vibrant neighbourhood plan our city is aiming to deliver.

More examples like this will become evident as our amazing city continues to grow. And now, we believe this location represents a remarkable site for a truly special community market each Sunday....for 6 hours!

Your feedback regarding traffic congestion on our opening day has been heard! We've put a huge number of measures in place, including a traffic management plan from Lytton Rd through Colmslie, super friendly traffic controllers and parking assistants, along with an extra 350 car parks (standby for our 'how to find' video soon).

We're hoping a positive outcome will be reached while we continue to work with the council, state government and surrounding stakeholders.

We truly appreciate each and every one of your comments, feedback and support! We’ll keep everyone updated in the meantime.

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We’re so thankful for your tremendous support of the new Rivermakers Markets on Sunday. To us, it was more than a Sunday farmers' market; it was a remarkable celebration of our amazing local community, small businesses, growers, makers, bakers, and creators. 🌟

Thank you to everyone who supported us, to everyone for providing your wonderful and helpful feedback and to the hundreds of positive comments and messages that we received.

From this Sunday, we’ve seen firsthand how much our local community has embraced our special riverside market location, highlighting the area's genuine desire for a regular farmers' market ❤️

For now, it's with a heavy heart we inform everyone that we must shift our farmers and artisan market to a monthly schedule until further notice.

Rest assured, we are working tirelessly to improve the market experience for everyone. Your support means the world to us, and we remain committed to delivering a premium and genuine farmers' market on the THIRD Sunday of each month. 🌿🥕🌼

Therefore, our next market date will be Sunday, 18th August.

We will ensure any and all market updates are provided as soon as we receive them. - please encourage others to follow us and stay up to date!

Again, thank you so much for all your support.

Hey everyone,
Thank you so much for your incredible support today ! On behalf of the entire market and Rivermakers we’re simply blown away by everyone attending the grand opening this morning. Thank you!!

Can we please note, we’ve just been notified of council inspectors fining cars parked along yellow lines on Colmslie Rd.

If you’re driving please head toward the new parking area at the end of Dunhill Crescent.

We strongly recommend ride sharing or alternatives to parking onsite due the number of attendees for our for very first our first day.
Thank you again.

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Rise and shine Morningside ☀️

Can't decide what to order off the menu? We've got you! 💁‍♀️

Check out out TOP 10 'cherry picked' things to do this Sunday!

Picture this, it's 5.30pm Thursday, you're late night shopping. The ambient lighting at Westfield doesn't distract you long enough to pick up the last bunch of broccoli on special. You think to yourself "how long has this been here for?" ... or "where did this come from?" ... Probably not right! I mean, we wouldn't blame you.

BUT - what if for that one occasion you did ask, or you do want to find out!??
Well, we think it's THYME to introduce Theresa and her gorgeous family from Valley Pride Produce, hailing from the little town of Charlwood!

Theresa's family are 5th (yep, 5th) generation farmers specialising in unique varieties you just won't find in any major supermarket. Why? Because she grows them exclusively for her customers at Farmers markets of course (we're pretty lucky!)

Think stunning Rainbow Dutch, Purple Dutch, and Paris Dutch carrots (plus good ol orange if that's your vibe), Gold Beetroot (YUM) Target Beetroot and stunning rainbow chard, silverbeet and so much more.

To reduce food waste, any of the *super ugly food is turned into jam, pesto, chutney, and even cake! Ensuring minimal impact on the environment

Theresa's ONE IN A MELON 🍈🍈Catch her and heaps more THIS Sunday at the Rivermakers Farmers & Artisan Markets opening!

We've popped out to say a big hello to Andrew and grab a few snaps of this GORGEOUS orchard in Stanthorpe while learning LOTS about all the apple varieties that will be on show THIS Sunday for the Rivermakers Markets opening!! 🍎🍏

What can we say... there's not a single thing Andrew doesn't know about apples (his favorite is 'Envy') . All of his apples are unwaxed and bought directly from the farm to market each weekend...

Expect to find Gala, Pink Lady, Granny Smith (of course!) , Envy, Kanzi, and Kalei...
HELLOOOOO Grannies apple pie.....🥧

If this guy can make it out of bed... you can too! 🐓🐓🐓

This time next week we'll have over 150 of South East Queensland's best artisan vendors, growers, makers, bakers, even bespoke knife sharpeners...just to name a few.

Opening next SundayJuly 21st and then OPEN EVERY following ☀️☀️☀️

7AM - 1PM. Rivermakers Precinct. 82 Colmslie Rd, Morningside. Free Entry. Free Parking.

*We promise he'll be wearing his favorite akubra next week too 🤠🤗☺️

EIGHT DAYS TO GO!

We're busy making hundreds of preparations for the opening next Sunday... to say we are a wee bit excited might be an understatement....

While we're prepping what will be Brisbane's NEWEST Riverfront Market, there's over 150 vendors sewing, crafting, stitching, tending and... well...adding the love and finishing touches to what is going to be one action-packed farmers & artisan market!

Check out:
🍹 Saltair Kombi Bar
🍞 The famous Artisan Bread Box
🔮 Zeljko Readings
👒 KarieMakes
🪴 Plantswithpizazz
Just to name a few 🤗🌟

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⭐ Grand Opening Sunday, 21st July
⏰ 7am – 1pm
🚗 Rivermakers Precinct. 82 Colmslie Road, Morningside
💐 Over 150 unique artisan and gourmet foodie and farm fresh produce vendors
✨ Free entry & free parking (Over 450 Car Parks)

Test driving the NEW rolling grass hill (and live music area) along the Brisbane River at Morningside! 🎶 ☀️ 🎷🎤

The team from Miss Mary Mac's are modelling just some of the gorgeous hand-made goodies you’ll find at the opening next Sunday ☀️

And, we’re soft launching Sunny 🐶 She’s joined us to assure you we’re definitely a dog friendly market! 🐶☀️🌻