{"id":440713,"date":"2026-05-09T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:33:16","slug":"how-a-trust-based-wicklow-farm-shop-is-thriving-as-supermarket-prices-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440713\/","title":{"rendered":"How a trust\u2011based Wicklow farm shop is thriving as supermarket prices rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From foraged pestos and syrups, to fresh milk, jars of honey and homemade chutneys, jams, cakes and breads, Daisy Cottage Farm\u2019s unmanned honesty hut is proving a big hit\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anne and Lorraine Aspill with Robin Mc Carthy at the Honesty Hut at Daisy Cottage Farm. Photo Joe Byrne.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/86cafca9-6b37-4592-abba-7ed0e3b133b1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Anne and Lorraine Aspill with Robin Mc Carthy at the Honesty Hut at Daisy Cottage Farm. Photo Joe Byrne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Wicklow baker who stepped away from the farmers\u2019 market circuit has found unexpected success with a trust\u2011based honesty hut on her family farm, complete with a refillable milk station that is drawing customers from across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Lorraine Aspill (60), who runs Daisy Cottage Farm in Kiltegan, launched the unmanned hut last November after deciding to change how she sold her produce. Five months on, the venture, which operates on an honesty system and sells everything from fresh bread to homemade jams and pestos, has gained a strong following as shoppers seek out more affordable, local alternatives during the cost\u2011of\u2011living crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From foraged pestos and syrups, to fresh milk, jars of honey and homemade chutneys, jams, cakes and breads,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,4657],"class_list":["post-440713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-myles-buchanan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}