Support this work
Donation
The funds we raise will ensure the project can take enduring root as an accessible public space for healing and connection. The 🤟🏽 Gardens invite everyone—especially those often left out of making and experiencing art—to participate, creating a shared space of natural beauty, resilience, and relationship throughout the Lewiston–Auburn community.
Donate Online (tax deductible) The gardens are part of Mourning Flowers, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) charity. Contributions made payable to Fractured Atlas for the purposes of Mourning Flowers are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Mail a check (tax deductible) made payable to Fractured Atlas with Mourning Flowers in the memo line, to:
Mourning Flowers c/o Tanja Hollander, PO Box 805, Lewiston, ME 04243.
Garden care: planting / weeding / watering / site clean up
marketing / spreading the word / recruiting volunteers + plants
organizing community planting days
garden design
hardscaping
ASL interpretation
and more!
Volunteer
Donate Plants / Tools
We are happy to accept items from your own garden or a supplier.
The top items on our wish list are:
2500 bulbs to plant in the fall
300-600 of your favorite native or pollinator friendly plants. Ideally low maintenance perennials, biennials and self seeding annuals
Garden trowels, shovels, hand hoes, weed cutters, loppers, small pruners, rakes, buckets, garden totes, gloves (general purpose/heavy duty), wood plant ID stakes
Plant ID signs
Custom signs to identify the gardens & memorial
Buy Art
Tanja is using the sale of her art to fund the gardens. Browse her website for photographs you can’t live without.
Thank you to everyone who has donated to Mourning Flowers and the Gardens:
Claudia Adams, Barbara Alfond, Jenny Allen, Anonymous, Joseph Appel, Nerys Bayley, Deborah Burd, Polly Campbell, Juliana Castedo, Champoux Insurance Group, James Chute, Adam Cowing, John Crouch + Poppy Connor Crouch, Sarah Day, DRE Nam Foundation, Gretchen Drown, Colin Dusenbury, Gayla Ellis, Susan Francis Ellis, Marvin Ellison, Leslie Ferrin, Kathleen Friedrich, Kathy Gleason, Carly Glovinski, Diane Handler, Cheryl Hart, Kurt + Charlotte Hemr, Stew Henderson, The Martha Henry Charitable Fund, Toby & Lucky Hollander, Linda Horn, Chanelle Irakoze and Armel Ndabaniwe, Janet Joseph, Claudia Joyce, K-Factor Fund, Stacey King, Willa Koerner, Muriel Littlefield, Mary Lyne, Valentine Talland + Nagesh Mahanthappa, Jan Marston, Tom Mayes + Rod Glover, Pamela Rosenthal, Victoria Sambunaris, Mary Anne + Joe Sedey, Bethel Shields, Alice Spencer, Cathy Stewart, Betsy McDonald Tesh, Caroline Teschke, Diane Valle, Cass Walker, Katarina Weslien, Carol Wishcamper and Woodbine Nest Fund.
Garden Partners: Auburn Conservation Commission, Bush's Bushes Nursery, City of Auburn Public Works, City of Lewiston Public Works, Downtown Lewiston Association, Gather to Grow, Maine Association of the Deaf, Maine Audubon, Maine Community Integration, Maine Flower Collective, Maine MILL, Maine Resiliency Center, Native Gardens of Blue Hill, O'Donal's Nursery, One Lewiston Resilience Fund, Skillin’s Greenhouses, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Androscoggin-Sagadahoc Counties, Wild Seed Project.