Eat Honey, My Son

Imagine that you're Nancy Holdeman, and the year is 1829. You're traveling by wagon train from Pennsylvania to join a small Mennonite farm settlement in Ohio with your husband, Amos, and Liza, the first of your nine babies. Still nursing, you're pregnant again.
Your family is depending on your skills for survival, so you packed the wagon with everything you'll need to nurture them until the first harvest. From rough shelter you create a home, while cultivating your summer garden with urgent...