...brilliant idea. Just the beginning of great things to come
An 11-year-old Texas girl has just scored a sweet $11 million deal with Whole Foods to sell her brand of lemonade.
BeeSweet Lemonade uses tasty mint, flaxseed and it's infused with honey, which came from her great-grandmother's 1940 recipe
She came up with idea in an effort to save bees and support beekeepers
Mikaila appeared on Shark Tank, where she won $60,000 in seed money
more after the cut
Mikaila Ulmer's BeeSweet Lemonade will be carried by 55 stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida.
The
savvy 6th-grader from Austin, Texas, has developed her signature Me
& The Bees lemonade stand into a thriving national business.
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Mikaila
Ulmer's BeeSweet Lemonade will be carried by 55 Whole Foods stores
(right) in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida. The savvy
6th-grader (left) from Austin, Texas, has developed her signature Me
& The Bees lemonade stand into a thriving national business
Mikaila (right) uses a tasty mint,
flaxseed and honey lemonade recipe she inherited from her
great-grandmother and gives a portion of her products to foundations
that support bees
Her recipe is a combination of tasty mint, flaxseed and honey lemonade, which she inherited from her great-grandmother, Helen.
Mikaila gives a portion of her products to bee rescue foundations.
BeeSweet lemonade supports Heifer International, Texas Beekeepers Association and the Sustainable Food Center.
Mikaila came up with the idea for her lemonade after being stung by bees twice when she was four, according to NBCBLK.
'It was painful. I was terrified of bees,' she said in an interview with NBC.
But then she began to study the bees after her mother D'Andra turned her bee sting experience into a research assignment.
When
Mikaila found out that bees could possibly become extinct in the years
to come, she devised a plan to use her great-grandmother's 1940 recipe,
which uses honey, in order to raise money to help the bees.
Even though honey bees pollinate more than $15 billion of crops each year, Mikaila told NBC that 'bees are dying'.
'Last year, beekeepers lost 40 per cent of all their hives,' she said.
She
also quoted Albert Einstein who said: 'If the bee disappeared off the
surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.'
Mikaila
started her lemonade business in 2009 and she sweetens her lemonade
with honey instead of sugar or artificial sweetener, which is healthier
and saves the bees as well as provides support for beekeepers.
She secured $60,000 on ABC's TV show Shark Tank, last year and then went on to serve lemonade to President Barack Obama.
She was also a part of Google's Dare to be Digital campaign.
Mikaila is now leading workshops on how to save the honeybees.
When Mikaila (pictured) found out that
bees could possibly become extinct in the years to come, she devised a
plan to use her great-grandmother's 1940 recipe, which uses honey, in
order to raise money to help the bees
She secured $60,000 on ABC's TV show
Shark Tank (pictured), last year and then went on to be a part of
Google's Dare to be Digital campaign
Mikaila (left sitting) also received the opportunity to serve lemonade to President Barack Obama (right)
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