Market Garden, Toomevara Lane

A surviving Chinese market garden in Kogarah since 1850.

Toomevara Lane market garden

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Toomevara Lane Chinese Market Gardens is a heritage-listed market garden at Toomevara Lane, Kogarah, Bayside Council, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Rockdale Market Gardens and Chinese Market Gardens. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The Toomevara Lane Market Gardens are of State significance as one of only five surviving market gardens in the Sydney metropolitan region in largely their original form and still employing traditional cultivation practices. The site is of significance for its association with the Chinese, German, Irish and Cornish communities and for its demonstration of a continuing pattern of land usage since the mid-19th century. Its market gardener's cottages are one of only four such cottages still attached to operating market gardens in the Sydney metropolitan region.

Source: NSW Environment and Heritage

Toomevara Lane market garden map

Image Courtesy of: NSW Environment and Heritage