Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams Thinks Roof Farms Can Save New York

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🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams announced his candidacy for mayor in November and food and farming are a big part of it. Get in touch: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater [email protected] More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.0	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.0	They don't last forever.
0:18.0	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.0	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.3	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe
0:29.6	Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:35.0	Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Hi everyone and welcome to Eaters Digest to show about all things food and dining.
0:51.0	I'm Amanda Klee Editor and Chief of Eder. And I am Daniel Janine,
0:56.2	producer at Eder. Amanda, I am super excited for this week's episode. We are talking to Eric Adams.
1:04.0	Eric Adams, he is the Brooklyn Borough President
1:06.7	and also a mayoral candidate.
1:08.7	I wanted to bring him on the show
1:11.5	because he has a lot of interesting thoughts around rooftop
1:14.3	gardens, rooftop farming, and utilizing rooftop space in urban areas to provide food to the people
1:22.2	of the city.
1:23.0	Which seems like an obvious thing seems like such a great idea and it's interesting to hear
1:29.2	about why things like that are not that easy to push through.
1:33.7	It's interesting hearing someone like that talk about food and health and wellness
1:39.7	as such an important and central focus of his like mayoral candidacy.
1:44.8	So we are going to talk to Mr. Health is wealth, you know?
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