--- title: Five Best: Farming Is the Next Frontier in Luxury Retail description: Farming is the next frontier in luxury retail, the secret to happiness might be ignoring what you can’t change and more. canonical: https://time.com/5075691/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail-2/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-21T17:00:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:15.610Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Farming Is the Next Frontier in Luxury Retail og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5075691/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Farming Is the Next Frontier in Luxury Retail twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Farming Is the Next Frontier in Luxury Retail by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 21, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 21, 2017 5:00 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) By Georgina Safe at _Business of Fashion_ **2\.** [**The secret to happiness might be ignoring what you can’t change.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/to-be-happier-focus-on-whats-within-your-control) By Massimo Pigliucci in _Aeon_ **3\.** [**Here’s how behavioral economics can help people lose weight.**](https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/news/cash-weight-loss) By the _Duke-NUS Medical School_ **4\.** [**This is why American teenagers aren’t getting summer jobs anymore.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-05/why-aren-t-american-teenagers-working-anymore) By Ben Steverman in _Bloomberg_ **5\.** [**For older Americans, too much sleep can be risky.**](https://www.bu.edu/today/2017/med-researchers-too-much-sleep-could-signal-dementia/) By Michael S. Goldberg in _BU Today_  [_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/5075691/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5075691/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail-2/"},"headline":"Farming Is the Next Frontier in Luxury Retail","datePublished":"2017-12-21T17:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:15.610Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5075691/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail-2/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Jobs","Retail","Innovation","Sleep","Happiness","health"],"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/5075691/farming-is-the-next-frontier-in-luxury-retail-2/","name":"Farming Is the Next Frontier in Luxury Retail"}}]}] ```