{"id":5095,"date":"2017-05-05T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2017-05-05T13:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:46:06","slug":"honeybees-have-a-new-hero-thanks-to-one-little-girls-lemonade-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/honeybees-have-a-new-hero-thanks-to-one-little-girls-lemonade-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Honeybees Have A New Hero, Thanks To One Little Girl\u2019s Lemonade Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author:\u00a0Rebecca Endicott<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is there anything more remarkable than the mind of a child?<\/p>\n

They may not have the knowledge and experience of their parents and grandparents, but kids are just incredibly creative, adventurous, and flexible in the way they think about big problems.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why kids \u2014 like adorable little Alia who cheers up San Franciscans with her rainbow rocks<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0have such a knack for solving problems with totally out-of-the-box solutions. They don\u2019t snag on the same particularities as grown-ups, and always reach for the stars.<\/p>\n

The latest example of the incredible phenomenon of kids<\/a> taking charge? A little girl named Mikaila\u00a0Ulmer who started with nothing but a painful bee sting and an old lemonade recipe from the 1940s.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0Mikaila, the unpleasant experience of being stung by a bee got her thinking, and launched her on the path to creating\u00a0BeeSweet Lemonade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the kind of creative leap that only a child could make, and now, it has paid off big time. According to The Grio<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0In March 2016, the now-11-year-old entrepreneur signed a major, multi-million dollar deal with Whole Foods, placing her product on the shelves of 55 stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.<\/p>\n

Now, she\u2019s poised to become one of the biggest new products on shelves across the country, but her clever and environmentally friendly idea grew from humble beginnings.<\/p>\n

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Little Mikaila\u00a0was just 4\u00a0years old when she got stung by the business bug \u2014 quite literally!<\/p>\n

According to the BeeSweet<\/a> website, the pint-size entrepreneur was preparing for a children\u2019s business fair when she was stung not once, but twice, by bees.<\/p>\n

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As Mikaila\u00a0puts it, \u201cI didn\u2019t enjoy the bee stings at all. They scared me.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then, something strange happened. \u201cI became fascinated with bees,\u201d she\u00a0continued. \u201cI learned all about what they do for me and our ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mikaila\u00a0was receiving an introduction to an important environmental topic. Though lots of people are scared of bees, they play a key role in supporting our ecosystems, and have been slowly dying out for decades.<\/p>\n

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Well, little Mikaila\u00a0wasn\u2019t about to sit around and let that happen.<\/p>\n

The tiny mogul decided to do something about it, armed with her Great-Granny Helen\u2019s signature lemonade recipe, a technique from the 1940s that Helen had handed down to Mikaila.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The recipe is simple, old-fashioned and wholesome, handed down through generations of her family. It calls on fresh lemon juice and flaxseeds, a hearty-healthy, fiber-rich super food.<\/p>\n

Mikaila\u00a0just made one tiny change. She decided to sweeten the lemonade, using local honey.<\/p>\n

Her motto? \u201cBuy a bottle, save a bee.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mikaila\u00a0donates a portion of every sale to Heifer International, a charitable organization that provides sustenance animals to families all over the world who can feed their children and create thriving small business with the help of animals that provide milk, eggs, or, yes, honey.<\/p>\n

BeeSweet\u2019s profits help fund beehives, helping people in need and promoting crop health and growth of the bee population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n