This 11 Year-Old’s Lemonade Stand Just Landed Her A $11 MILLION Deal

An incredible 11-year-old from Texas has just scored an $11 million deal with Whole Foods to sell her brand of lemonade. 

Mikaila Ulmer’s BeeSweet Lemonade will be carried by 55 stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Whole Foods were so impressed with Mikala’s lemonade, the supermarket giant agreed to sell the products in its regional stores.

If Mikaila’s lemonade does well, it’ll eventually be sold nationwide. The savvy 6th-grader from Austin, Texas, developed her signature “Me & The Bees” lemonade stand into a thriving business. 

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 product revenue 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 after initially being afraid of bees she began to study them, 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 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 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 sweetens her lemonade with honey instead of sugar or artificial sweetener.

This is a much healthier options and saves bees, as well as provides support for beekeepers.

Mikaila 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 part of Google’s Dare to be Digital campaign. Mikaila is now leading workshops on how to save the honeybees.

Congratulations Mikaila!