By Parker McKenzie
The Gully Market will return for 2022 on Saturday 8 January after a two week break over Christmas.
Held in the carpark of the Upper Ferntree Gully train station, the market runs from 9am to 3pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Market organiser Julie Davenport said she has been involved in the market for eight years.
“We’ve got stallholders who have been coming since the 70s when the market first started up,” she said.
“There will be 20 stalls on Saturday and 15 stalls on Sunday.”
Some of the stalls present include fruit and vegetables, crystals, honey and hot food.
Author Dennis Luke will be present selling his self-published book.
“Originally I started going to sell my novel – Aussie Fury: A Truckies Tale – and I saw my wife making all these cards so I started selling those too,” he said.
“I’ll be there this Saturday and the following one with as well.”
The Gully Market is a non-for-profit organisation run by a committee of stall holders and is one of the oldest markets still running in Victoria.
Mrs Daveport said would would “dearly love” to avoid disruptions to the market that occurred in 2021.
“We’ll have our standard plants, crystals, honey, candles and that sort of thing,” she said.
“Our hot food and coffee vans will be there too, like the Sri Lanka food van.”
The Gully Market will run on Saturday and Sundays throughout 2022.
