Werribee Market Gardens
A picture of a Werribee market garden as a wall print. The image itself is below.
THERE WAS A time in my life when I drove past this farm and others like it every Monday night, or at least every time the Werribee/Wyndham City Council met. I reported on that council in the late 1980s; meetings started at 7 or 7.30pm, and between about 5.30pm and the start of the meetings I’d just go for a drive around the area known as the Werribee Market Gardens in Werribee South. It’s a beautiful area, flat, brown, working, real, worth treasuring. As the crow flies this area is close to the Melbourne CBD but when you’re there it feels a world away. I was in the area one hot morning at the start of 2025, just driving around liked I used to all those evenings ago, and stopped to capture this, partly because I like ordered rows, partly because of the caravan, and partly because there will be a time not too far hence when these market gardens are but a memory. I file these pictures in the Last Chance To See folder, not because plans are imminent for this particular farm but because the vibe of this area is that development is on the march. The richness of the area though remains vivid.
Image copyright Campbell Mattinson.
