Our Sweet Story

Let our founder, Mikaila, tell our story:

When I was just four, I got stung by a bee and then got stung again less than a week later! Naturally, I didn't enjoy the bee stings at all and I became scared of bees. But then after doing some research about them, I became fascinated and learned all about what they do for me and our ecosystem.

Around that same time, my family encouraged me to make a product for a couple of children's business competitions — the Acton Children’s Business Fair and Austin Lemonade Day. I put on my thinking cap. While I was thinking, my Great Granny Helen, who lived in Cameron, South Carolina, sent my family a 1940s cookbook, which included her special recipe for flaxseed lemonade.

So then I thought, what if I make something that helps honeybees and uses my Great Granny Helen's lemonade recipe? I decided to give her beloved lemonade a new twist by adding honey from bees, instead of only sugar. That's how my lemonade was created!

I started selling my lemonade at youth entrepreneurial events and at my lemonade stand out in front of my home, donating a percentage of the profits to local and international organizations fighting hard to save the bees. Which is why I say: “Buy a Bottle…Save a Bee.”  And now, we’re celebrating more than 10 years in “buzzness!”

Wanting to do more, our family started the Healthy Hive Foundation, a nonprofit to save all bees through education, research, protection and to inspire social entrepreneurship.

Through the Healthy Hive Foundation, we are teaching families and CEO’s the importance of bees. We help inspire people to solve big issues through social entrepreneurship. And by raising and directing funds to support beekeepers and scientific research, we are helping to protect bees and their habitats.

Learn what you can do to help. Become a bee-liever!