Urban Pulse Direct Mikaila Ulmer | Page 7

saves the bees as well as provides support for beekeepers. She 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 a part of Google’s Dare to be Digital campaign. Mikaila is now leading workshops on how to save the honeybees. to come, she devised a plan to use her greatgrandmother’s 1940 recipe, which uses honey, in order to raise money to help the bees. While honey bees pollinate more than $15 billion of crops each year, Mikaila told NBC that ‘bees are dying’. So how did this beautiful child reinvent herself into the young business mogul she is today? Read more online at www.iloveupd.com. Source: VALERIE EDWARDS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM ‘Last year, beekeepers lost 40 per cent of all their hives,’ Mikaila 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 she sweetens her lemonade with honey instead of sugar or artificial sweetener, which is healthier and www.i l ov eup d .com 7