
She turned a basement tank into a 27,000-square-foot answer to a needlessly global seafood supply chain. The biology worked, the product won awards, and the business still met the hard edge of scale.
Sara Rademaker turned a basement tank into America’s largest commercial eel farm and cut thousands of miles from a strange seafood supply chain. The biology worked. The product won. But a $10 million plant, expensive debt and the brutal timing of scale-up left a sharper lesson for anyone trying to rebuild food infrastructure at home.