Urban Herbology Meetup

📌 More about the course and how it works: urbanherbology.org/how-the-course-works
Contact Lynn with any questions.

About the Artist
Lynn Shore is a green witch, herbalist, and educator based in Amsterdam. Her work explores how people can reconnect with nature in urban environments through plants, observation, and everyday ritual.
With a background in science and special education, Lynn has spent over 25 years studying and practising herbalism, including training in the UK (Medical Herbalist) and the Netherlands (HBO Kruidengeneeskunde), alongside permaculture, horticultural therapy, and nature-based education. She has also worked for over two decades as a complementary therapist, bringing a holistic approach to wellbeing.
In 2010, she founded Urban Herbology, offering walks, workshops, and courses that help people engage with edible and medicinal plants in the city. She also initiated the River of Herbs community gardening project, supporting access to freely available food and medicine through urban growing.
Lynn is the author of The Green City Witch: Weaving a Magical Life in Urban Spaces, and teaches the Green City Witch course, where she guides students in developing a personal, grounded relationship with urban nature.
Her work brings together practical plant knowledge, folklore, and lived experience, encouraging a slower, more attentive way of relating to the natural world — even in the heart of the city.
She has a particular interest in supporting neurodiverse individuals through nature connection, herbal practice, and diet.

Topics
The conversations with Lynn are meant for anyone whose main topics of interest are:

• Consult with a Medical Herbalist
• Urban edible and medicinal herbs
• Urban nature as a support tool for mental health
• Responsible city foraging

Information
Date: 24th of April
Both 30-minute time slots are from 16:00-16:30 & 16:30-17:00.
Tickets
Full price €10
Artists/Students discount €7,50

*We give a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.
Read our ticket terms and conditions here.

For questions please e-mail workshop@mediamatic.nl.

When: 2–4pm | Last day of most months (Mar–Oct)
Where: Starts & ends at Black Moon Botanica – Magical Apothecary & Occult Bookshop, Spiegelgracht 30-H, Amsterdam, 1017 JS.
Price: €30 per person | Limited spaces
Tickets: can only be booked via this link

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Join Lynn Shore for the 2026 version of her spellbinding walk through Amsterdam’s hidden green corners, enchanted architecture, and find streetwise plant allies.
These walks won’t just be strolls through the canal streets looking for herbs. We will be creating a sensory spell, a natural history lesson woven with folklore, and live ritual – The art of seeing the city like a witch.

What to expect

• Discover the magical properties of common city trees and weeds (you’ll never see them the same way again)
• Hear tales of architectural superstition and natural symbolism in the city’s design
• Learn how to craft simple protective charms and green spells using locally growing herbs
• Tap into seasonal energies and leave with practical witchy wisdom
• Option to browse ritual herbs, blends, and occult goods at Black Moon Botanica after the walk

Your guide, Lynn Shore, is a practicing green witch and medical herbalist, with decades of magical and botanical experience. She loves introducing deep plant and esoteric knowledge, and is the published author of The Green City Witch.

In 2010, she founded Urban Herbology, offering walks, workshops, and courses that help people engage with edible and medicinal plants in the city. She also initiated the River of Herbs community gardening project, supporting access to freely available food and medicine through urban growing.
Lynn is the author of The Green City Witch: Weaving a Magical Life in Urban Spaces, and teaches the Green City Witch course, where she guides students in developing a personal, grounded relationship with urban nature.
Her work brings together practical plant knowledge, folklore, and lived experience, encouraging a slower, more attentive way of relating to the natural world — even in the heart of the city.
She has a particular interest in supporting neurodiverse individuals through nature connection, herbal practice, and diet.

Topics
The conversations with Lynn are meant for anyone whose main topics of interest are:

• Consult with a Medical Herbalist
• Urban edible and medicinal herbs
• Urban nature as a support tool for mental health
• Responsible city foraging

Information
Date: 21st of May
Both 30-minute time slots are from 16:00-16:30 & 16:30-17:00.
Tickets
Full price €10
Artists/Students discount €7,50

*We give a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.
Read our ticket terms and conditions here.

For questions please e-mail workshop@mediamatic.nl.