A Bee Poem

 You Need Trees to Help Bees

Trees Need Bees, BEEcause bees use Trees to make a hive (Pardon the Pun.) With out Trees you Wouldn't Have Bees and if bees disappeared you wouldn't get Toast with Honey.

Grow a Apple Tree from a Seed!

usually only 1 out of 3 seed work so plant a whole Apple! I love crunchy apples. One of my favorite quotes is  "a Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor".

How to Plant a Citrus Tree

Hope you Really enjoy eating those juicy oranges!

How to Plant a Tree!

Plant a TREE!...

Our goal is to plant as many trees as we can, who is Joaquin Miller you ask? he planted over 70,000 in his lifetime! So if you plant a tree just post on our Facebook page or twitter account, or comment here. 

But Plant trees, that's our goal is to plant as many trees as we can!

Plant any type you want, I like planting Redwoods.

Who Was Joaquin Miller?

Joaquin Miller was a colorful figure who was well known in California literary and social circles. He spent his last years in Oakland, in a home on the road that is now Joaquin Miller Road. But his real name — the name he was given at birth on Sept. 8, 1837 — was Cincinnatus Hiner. The name "Joaquin" was adapted later from the legendary California bandit, Joaquin Murietta.

Joaquin Miller was the pen name of the colorful American poet Cincinnatus Heine Miller (September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913), nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras".
His parents Hulling's and Margret Miller were both Quakers.As a young man, he moved to northern California during the California Gold Rush years, and had a variety of adventures, including spending a year living in a Native American village, and being wounded in a battle with Native Americans. A number of his popular works, Life Amongst the Modocs, An Elk Hu, and The Battle ofCastle Crags, draw on these experiences. He was wounded in the cheek and neck with an arrow during this latter battle, recuperating at the Gold Rush-era mining town ofPortuguese Flat.Miller had sent a copy of Joaquin, et al. to Bret Harte, who offered advice that he avoid "faults of excess" and encouragingly wrote, "you on your way to become a poet."^[20] The next summer, July 1870, Miller traveled to San Francisco with borrowed money and there befriended Charles Warren Stoddard and Ina Coolbrith. Stoddard was the first to meet him at the dock and, as he recalled, Miller's first words to him were, "Well, let us go and talk with the poets."^[21]

Miller went to England, where he was celebrated as a frontier oddity. There, in May 1871, Miller published Songs of the Sierras, the book which finalized his nickname as the "Poet of the Sierras".^[22] It was well received by the British press and members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti.

While in England, he was one of the few Americans invited into the Savage Club along with Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The younger Hawthorne referred to Miller as "a licensed libertine" but admitted to finding him "charming, amiable, and harmless".^[23] Rather abruptly, Miller left England in September 1871 and landed in New York. At the encouragement of family, he made his way to Easton, Pennsylvania to visit his dying brother before returning to Oregon; his father died shortly thereafter. Miller eventually settled in California, where he grew fruit and published his poems and other works.

In 1877, Miller adapted his First Fam'lies of the Sierras into a play, The Danites, or, the Heart of the Sierras. It opened on August 22 in New York with McKee Rankin as the main character.^[24] The anti-Mormon play, which featured Danites hunting the daughter of one of the murderers of Joseph Smith, Jr., became one of the most commercially successful in a series of anti-Mormon dramas at the time. The Spirit of the Times, however, attributed its success to curious audience members expected a disastrous failure and instead discovering a good show: "The play proved to possess more than ordinary merit, and if it is not a great work, it is decidedly not a very bad one."^[25] The Danites was extended from a run of only a few days to one of seven straight weeks before moving to another theatre and, ultimately, was performed to such a degree that it rivaled the popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin.^[26] It was published in book form later in 1877.^[27] Miller later admitted that he regretted the anti-Mormon tone.^[28Joaquin Miller Cabin is located in Washington, DC. The Hights, the Oakland home Miller built at the end of his life, is currently known as the Joaquin Miller House and is part of Joaquin Miller Park. He planted the surrounding trees and he personally built, on the eminence to the north, his own funeral pyre and monuments dedicated to Moses, General John C. Frémont, and the poetsRobert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Japanese poet Yone Noguchi began his literary career while living in the cabin adjoining Millers' during the latter half of the 1890s. The Hights was purchased by the city of Oakland in 1919 and can be found in Joaquin Miller Park.^[29] It is now a designated California Historical Landmark. Miller Middle School was also named after him.

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