Radio and PodcastRadio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Growing Hope: What Depression-Era Gardens and Rainn Wilson Teach Us About Hard Times artwork
Education

Growing Hope: What Depression-Era Gardens and Rainn Wilson Teach Us About Hard Times

Here's Where It Gets Interesting by Sharon McMahon

Mar 30, 202639:36Education

During the Great Depression, Detroit officials carved up vacant lots and handed exhausted families seeds and tools. It wasn't a hobby — it was survival. And a lesson for today: hope isn't just a feeling, it's a habit you...

About This Episode

Growing Hope: What Depression-Era Gardens and Rainn Wilson Teach Us About Hard Times is an episode from Here's Where It Gets Interesting by Sharon McMahon. During the Great Depression, Detroit officials carved up vacant lots and handed exha...

Podcast

This episode belongs to Here's Where It Gets Interesting.

Listen Online

Use the player on this page to stream the episode online.

Episode Details

Published Mar 30, 2026, 39:36 long, audio available.