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Ceres
Ceres (Centre for Education & Research in Environmental Strategies) is a 20-year-old community environment project, with an objective to educate in environmental sustainability. Stroll through the Permaculture and Bushfood Nursery or the Origin EcoHouse before refuelling with an organic coffee and cake at the cafe. Or, better, come for the community market where you can buy locally produced organic and handmade goodies, and have your tarot read while the kids marvel at the chooks and Helmut the black sheep.
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Esplanade Sunday Market
About a kilometre of trestle tables joined end-to-end carry an extraordinary array of crafty items made by each individual stallholder. With a seaside backdrop, you can pick your way through toys, jewellery, mobiles, soaps, woodwork and ornaments from over 200 stalls.
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Footscray Market
This frenetic covered food market is laden with seductive produce: you'll find lotus flowers, pigs' ears, coriander and cassava root. There's also an excellent range of fresh seafood, some of it still swimming. From the food court, take the lift to the top floor for a giddying view over the railway and docklands to the city and West Gate Bridge.
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Gleadell Street Market
Buy a bag of nuts and shuffle past the fish caravan, the spruiking stallholders and hundreds of locals laden with a week's worth of fruit and veg. This little open-air market is a genuine community experience, and a terrific start to any Saturday.
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Prahran Market
The Prahran Market has been an institution for over a century and is one of the finest produce markets in the city. Established in 1881 it provided an outlet for the area's small farms and market gardens. Back then, horses parked out the back and added to the rich odours. Through the '70s and '80s a man positioned in an enclosed box used an intercom to direct queuing cars. In the mid-'90s a gourmet food hall and a multilevel car park were added.
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Queen Victoria Market
The Queen Victoria Market is a thriving community of over 600 traders, all bellowing special prices from behind colourful produce stalls. It's the largest open-air market in the southern hemisphere and attracts thousands of shoppers. You can buy everything the most fickle palate could desire here.
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South Melbourne Market
This neighbourhood institution (operating on this site since 1864) sells everything from carpets to bok choy (Chinese greens). A teeny window on Cecil St doles out the city's best dim sims (be prepared to queue). The market's labyrinthine interior is packed to overflowing with an eccentric collection of stalls. Turn a corner and you could find organic wine, a hairdresser, a masseuse or a novelty singing trout. The produce is excellent, the pace is leisurely and the surrounding streets are conveniently dotted with decent cafés.
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