{"id":61182,"date":"2016-04-26T00:09:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T07:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=61182"},"modified":"2016-04-26T00:09:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T07:09:12","slug":"bee-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61182","title":{"rendered":"bee sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis story simply couldn\u2019t <em>bee<\/em> any sweeter \u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61183\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61183\" class=\"wp-image-61183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/600px-Honey_Bee_on_Willow_Catkin_5419305106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-61183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth! Via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was just 4, my family encouraged me to make a product for a children&#8217;s business competition and Austin Lemonade Day. So, I put on my thinking cap,\u201d begins Texas pollination activist and ecopreneur Mikaela Ulmer (who is now a ripe ol\u2019 11 years old). \u201cI thought about some ideas. While I was thinking, two big events happened: I got stung by a bee. Twice. Then my Great Granny Helen \u2026 sent my family a 1940s cookbook, which included her special recipe for Flaxseed Lemonade. I didn&#8217;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&#8217;s recipe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a golden idea that blossomed into Bee Sweet Lemonade, a burgeoning business that not only sells a lot of lemonade but also donates money from sales to local and international organizations that strive to preserve pollinator populations.<\/p>\n<p>Mikaela\u2019s motto is, \u201cBuy a Bottle \u2026 Save a Bee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This sharp-as-a-bee-stinger little darlin\u2019 is on a roll.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Mikaela hooked a Shark Tank investor Daymon John. Last month, she struck a deal with Whole Foods that included the distribution of Bee Sweet Lemonade in 55 stores.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her in action and you\u2019ll understand the secret to Mikaela\u2019s success:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OHhmlJylBkI\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Keep up with the Bee Sweet story at <a href=\"http:\/\/beesweetlemonade.com\/\"><u>BeeSweetLemonade.com<\/u><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beesweetlemonade\"><u>Facebook.com\/beesweetlemonade<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story simply couldn\u2019t bee any sweeter \u2026 \u201cWhen I was just 4, my family encouraged me to make a product for a children&#8217;s business competition and Austin Lemonade Day. So, I put on my thinking cap,\u201d begins Texas pollination &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}