Farming the Frontier: My Granaries Keep the Northern Border Fed

A graduate student from an agricultural university transmigrates into the body of a soldier-farmer on the frontier. From the start, he has only half a bag of moldy millet and an order demanding a grain inspection in three months, a death warrant in all but name. With a humble pit kiln and a shovel, he grows enough food on barren saline flats to feed an army of three hundred thousand.