Eleven year-old Mikaila Ulmer has a heart for Bees. Why? Because honeybees are threatened with extinction. Mikaila’a answer to this threat was to create a business that not only used the honey the bees give us, but one that would give back to the bees themselves. Thus was born Me & The Bees: a lemonade company that uses flax seeds and local honey as sweetener. This young social entrepreneur has made it into the big stores such as Wegmans and even WholeFoods! A portion of all profit goes towards efforts to save bee populations from extinction. Mikaila’s story is simple and sweet and shows us that it is most rewarding to create a business that has focused mission and wholesome product.
Growing up we always heard about how much bees were in danger and how we need to not kill them and be more careful about the environment. Although there were many warnings it did not seem like many people were trying to fix the inevitable problem. Me & The Bees is a great way to make a delicious healthy product that also takes care of the environment and raising money to help save the bees from going extinct.