Frank Tozer

Frank is the author of four popular and comprehensive books on organic food gardening, including The Vegetable Growers Handbook, The Organic Gardeners Handbook, The Uses of Wild Plants and the newly published, The New Food Garden. Two of his books have been adapted for the Smart Gardener website.

Frank was born in England, but an interest in wild edible plants brought him to the United States and led him to plant his first vegetable garden in 1981. He has experience gardening in Connecticut, Washington State and in Santa Cruz, California, where he moved to apprentice at the UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden.

He still lives in the Santa Cruz area, surrounded by the garden he carved out of the woods. His 2-1/2 acre garden is an evolving mix of English cottage garden, edible landscape, forest garden, French intensive vegetable garden, native plants and encroaching forest and it is the source for much of the material he writes about in his books.