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The Perpetual Self-Reliance Project — An Update on Our Progress (And Thanks for Your Support!!)

Sunlight dapples through the trees leaving variegated shadows on the landscape. The sun balances on the tips of the western mountains, ready to slip slowly behind them into slumber. Presidente (as we called ...

The Perpetual Self-Reliance Project — Buying a Pig and (Trying) to Get Her Pregnant (aka Pig Porn)

With this amazing, life changing and FUN project, so far we've: built the chicken coop put tilapia in the pond built a pig pen and nesting boxes Now we were on a mission -- to buy a pig (pregnant i...

The Perpetual Self-Reliance Project — Building a Pig Pen and Nesting Boxes (and Putting Up Fencing)

So far, we've built the chicken coop and put tilapia in the pond for The Perpetual Self-Reliance Project. Today, we took up ALL the kids (all 19 of them) to help out with little projects. We all caught a ...

The Perpetual Self-Reliance Project, Guatemala — Getting Fish for the Tilapia Pond

A few days after building the chicken coop for The Perpetual Self-Reliance Project, we went in search of tilapia (fish) for the pond. (more…)...

The Perpetual Self-Reliance Project, Guatemala: Building a Chicken Coop

Our first day of work on our new project, The Perpetual Self-Reliance Project, we completed our first undertaking -- building a chicken coop. This is what we started with: (more…)...

The Perpetual Self-Reliance Project — Teaching a Family How to Fish : Patanatic, Guatemala

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$129.00 What was the last thing you spent $129 on? Groceries? Your cell phone bill? Maybe a new toy or gadget. See the man in this picture to the right? We personally know him, we call him Presidente -- hum...