This is the sweetest story you’ll read all day.
12-year-old Mikaila Ulmer’s lemonade business is booming — and it’s about to get even bigger, thanks to an $810,000 investment from a group of current and former NFL players, including Seattle’s Bobby Wagner.
The young entrepreneur first began making the flaxseed lemonade when she was 4, using a family cookbook handed down from the 1940’s. She later began sweetening the drink with honey as she became more aware of the role of honeybee pollination and its impact on crops and flowers.
Mikaila’s lemonade company “Me & the Bees” was born, which now offers a portion of its profits to companies invested in saving the honeybee population.