This is a 7 inch by 7 inch version of the larger book entitled A Forest Garden on Somes Pond. It contains most of the text of the original book with a fewer photos.

The typical Maine woods is often an impenetrable tangle of underbrush, the result of criss-crossing dead branches from the fir and spruce trees. It appears that only the top of these deciduous evergreens are alive as they block out the sun in its attempt to penetrate the forest floor. If that is not enough, the acidic needles that fall, form a thick forest floor where little new growth stands a chance of surviving. The resulting thicket hides everything including sizable boulders called glacial-erratics that haphazardly fell to the earth when the thick glaciers made their retreat. Over the last decade, Judith Goldstein and Jonathan Stein have been hacking their way through the dense underbrush and in the process transforming their part of the a forest into a very special garden. Through a patient but strenuous act of editing, of careful removal, the once impenetrable forest has become an ever-expanding refuge for plants as well as people.