Shopping – Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges
End your visit to Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges with car boot bulging with bounty from farm gates and provedores, vintage collectibles, or limited edition art from a local gallery or studio.
Souvenirs to appreciate
The region's creative community ensures an abundance of art galleries displaying local paintings, sculptures and jewellery. You could be lucky and meet the artist and find a unique souvenir. Head to Daylesford for the Convent and Pantechnicon galleries. Call past small workshops or market stalls on your way to the Strawbale Gallery in Woodend and Lancefield's Mad Gallery.
Curios and collectibles
Try walking down any main street in Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges without venturing into a second-hand and collectible book store or an antique shop filled with furniture, silverware and china. Pick up contemporary homewares and handicrafts to complement your 'new' vintage pieces.
Browse the antique stores in Kyneton's Piper Street and get sustenance from the Provender Book Shop Café. In Daylesford the Lake Daylesford Book Barn and the Avant Garden Bookshop are great places for a wander while the effects of a spa, massage or hearty lunch soak in.
Woodend, Gisborne, Kilmore and Lancefield, with its three-storey Macedonia antique centre, all have tiny stores to occupy you for hours.
Let the pampering continue
Don't leave the pampering and relaxation in Spa Country. Pick up locally-produced body products with beneficial mineral properties, or load up on scented candles. Keep an eye out for Lavandula's lavender body products.
Taste your way home
Take home tasty mementos from Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges. Call in to provedores like Woodend's Maloa House, Country Cuisine in Daylesford, Slow Living and Ladle in Kyneton for local olive oil, truffles, honey, cheeses and artisan breads. Stop at farm gates and markets for fresh seasonal produce. And be sure to follow signs down country roads to small family vineyards for award-winning cool climate wines.
