Author: Bjørge Bondevik

  • Coffee has left East Timor – Europe next!

    Kaffen har forlatt Øst-Timor – Europa neste!

    It's January, and after working for over a year on Konfiansa's first production, we're getting closer to our goal. On January 16, a container will be shipped from East Timor, with 30 of the over 300 bags of coffee in the tin cans bearing Konfiansa as both the addressee and the addressee. 1,800 kilos of coffee are expected to arrive in Norway at the end of March.…

  • We produce!

    Vi produserer!

    It is August and almost two years after Konfiansa saw the light of day, we have reached a major milestone: We are producing coffee. Right now we are in the high season of coffee production in East Timor. The farmers in CCALMA, Konfiansa's new cooperative, have in recent weeks built drying beds and used the cooperative's newly purchased depulping machine (a machine that removes…