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“The more we gave away,” Todd said, “the more positive feed-
back we received. As people started getting hold of our coffee,
they began to ask if they could buy it. The demand became
greater, and the business just ballooned.”

129 Coffee Roasters was officially launched in January 2022.
The couple, still working their day jobs, roast 100-200 pounds
of farm-fresh, direct-trade, fair-trade beans per week they have
shipped to them from around the world. Todd carefully selects
beans of high quality and unique taste as he works directly with
the farmers who grow them — in a building they erected next
to their Coats home. They sell whole bean coffee in the bag
from their home, online at www.129coffeeroasters.com and at
Inspirational Grounds Coffee House and Sweet Dreams Bak-
ery in Dunn. The company’s purpose is “to make your coffee
experience second to none.

The Satterfields have another goal, too, and that is to share
their faith in Jesus Christ through coffee. The company name
comes from Genesis 1:29: “And God said: Behold, I have giv-
en you every herb bearing seed, which us upon all the face of
the Earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree
yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.” Of this Todd said,
“God gives us every seed-bearing plant, and coffee is a seed-
bearing plant. The bean is a fruit. I wanted to use this name to
start conversations with people about Christianity and Christ.
God has given me a heart for people who’ve never heard the
As part of their branding, 129 Coffee Roasters’ owners name of Jesus. We hope one day to be able to get into oth-
document and photograph different places they enjoy er countries though the connection of coffee. For example, I
drinking coffee. This scene is from a Harnett County pond.

129 Coffee Roasters
Todd and Mary Jo Satterfield are the owners and operators of
129 Coffee Roasters of Coats. The circa 2021 entrepreneurs
are the only coffee roasters in the county. Though both have
full-time careers in the insurance industry, an introduction to
specialty coffee sparked them to roast and sell their own.

Todd explained, “For years my wife and I bought coffee from
the grocery store shelf because we thought all coffee was equal.
Then we were introduced to specialty coffee and went from
having a home cup of Folgers to international coffee pour-
overs. We visited coffee shops across the state and focused on
those who roasted their own coffee. We were hooked.”

The couple bought a small coffee roaster to use at home with
the DIY goal of roasting and brewing coffee as good as what
they purchased on their coffee shops visits. Their success led
them to get more serious with their new hobby; they liked the
results they were getting from the roaster, and their friends did,
too. With the help of a local businessman turned investor, the
next step on the journey was upgrading to a commercial roaster
large enough to grind enough of the “green beans” they inter-
nationally source to make enough coffee for themselves and Mary Jo is inspecting the color and smell of the coffee
others. beans in the middle of the roasting process.

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