When you reach your 40’s everyone needs to have a mid-life crisis, for Maryland born and bred JD Blackwell he never dreamed his would involve playing nursemaid to millions of bivalve mollusks growing in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.
Blackwell, the COO (chief oyster officer) of 38° North Oysters, has turned his western Maryland shore company into an entrepreneurial, sales and development savvy operation that has created the ideal growth environment for the ideal food — oysters.
“Because of some previous successes in life I had some spare time on my hands in 2010, so I decided to have my mid-life crisis and spend time in Florida, said the handsome Chesapeake waterman. “When you get to your 40’s you sort of need to have a mid-life crisis, so I spent the next two years in Florida researching oyster aquaculture all over the world.”
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