In 1967, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she began studying landscape design at Foothill College.

[1] She earned her degree in horticulture, and initially worked in landscape design using plants she describes as 'non-edible'.

[2] She first came to think about edible landscaping when she and her husband visited an Israeli kibbutz in the late 1970s where she saw the energy that went into building crop land in Israel.

[1] After she published her first book, she traveled to different parts of the United States to introduce people to edible landscaping.

[9] In 1999, Rosalind was named a fellow of Garden Communications International, and in 2009, she was elected to their Hall of Fame.