Today is LEMONADE DAY!!
To celebrate, I wanted to share a great lemonade success story with you.
It’s about 11-year-old Mikaila Ulmer of Austin, Texas.
A few years ago, she started making lemonade from a special flaxseed recipe found in her Great Granny Helen’s 1940s cookbook. It’s sweetened with the honey from local bees.
Mikaila started making her “BeeSweet Lemonade” (now called Me & the Bees Lemonade) after she got stung by a bee (TWICE!) and wanted to learn more about them.
Now she’s on a mission to SAVE them.
She writes, “I didn’t enjoy the bee stings at all. They scared me. But then something strange happened. I became fascinated with bees. I learned all about what they do for me and our ecosystem. So then I thought, what if I make something that helps honeybees and uses my Great Granny Helen’s recipe?”
WATCH:
https://youtu.be/xYwTAJMbFy8
That’s not all…
Earlier this year, she appeared on the TV show Shark Tank with her dad and scored a $60,000 investment!!
Which then landed her a contract with Whole Foods!
It didn’t stop there… She THEN got to speak at the United State of Women Summit…
AND, she introduced President Barack Obama to the stage!! Sweet!
Way to go, Mikaila!
Talk about turning lemons (I mean, bee stings) into lemonade!!
Happy Lemonade Day!!