--- --- # Farming Is The Next Frontier in Luxury Retail by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 19, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 19, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The next frontier in luxury retail: farming.**](https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/global-currents/how-luxury-brands-are-snapping-up-farms-to-control-their-supply-chains)[**.**](http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2015/10/30/building-better-board-of-trustees/) By Georgina Safe at _Business of Fashion_ **2\.** [**Power doesn’t merely corrupt, it might weaken the brain.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/) By Jerry Useem in the _Atlantic_ **3\.** [**The biggest challenge for e-commerce is the U.S. Postal Service.**](https://www.thestreet.com/story/14178745/1/online-shopping-has-a-massive-problem-that-must-be-solved-j-c-penney-ceo-says.html) By Lindsay Rittenhouse in the _Street_ **4\.** [**Here’s one way to make sure people eat their vegetables.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/19/health/vegetables-indulgent-names-study/index.html) By Victoria Knight at _CNN_ **5\.** [**Should children get their mother’s last name instead of their father’s?**](http://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/fathers-heres-why-your-children-should-have-their-moms-last-name/78942) By Sean Braswell in _Ozy_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Farming Is The Next Frontier in Luxury Retail ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4823543/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4823543/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail/"},"headline":"Farming Is The Next Frontier in Luxury Retail","datePublished":"2017-06-19T16:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:45.033Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4823543/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Brain","Vegetables","Family","Farming"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4823543/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail/","name":"Farming Is The Next Frontier in Luxury Retail"}}]}] ```