From left: Garnet Best, Wallowa County, vice president; O. E. Mikesell, Linn County, president; and Don Rasmussen, Marion County, secretary. O.E. Mikesell was a faculty member for the Albany Extension Service for 40 years. After serving as a 4-H Agent from 1934-1943, Mikesell became an Agricultural Agent from 1943-1974.
Multnomah County subsistence garden project, showing another view of the same garden with smaller vegetables. The man in the foreground is the owner of this garden and was unemployed. Besides raising all the garden food for his own family and canning enough to last during the year, he was able to sell $400 worth of vegetables from a result of his work.
Multnomah County subsistence garden project, showing another view of the same garden with Southern Pacific Brooklyn car shops in background and home of the owner of this garden.