Urban Herbology Meetup

I am running this beautiful workshop with Mediamatic. To avoid any confusion, you need to book tickets via the Mediamatic website (please don't email me about them as you need to book via their website :)
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Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your mental health. You will learn to know how to find and use several urban plant friends. Find out about their health effects, how to identify them in your immediate surroundings, use your senses to heal with them, and try techniques to ground yourself with city nature. Connect with your inner Biophile!

What you will do
You will begin this workshop by walking in the surroundings of Mediamatic Biotoop, and discovering different wild herbs that can be used to boost your mood, calm you, energize you and overall help to reach a balanced state of mind. After foraging a few of these plants, you will have a guided tea session with Lynn, during which you can taste them in a brew and observe the effect which they have on your mind. You will leave with a deeper knowledge of edible herbs in your environment and hopefully a sense of balance and calm.

This workshop will take place partly outside in all weathers, as it is important to get fresh air in sun and rain. Please come prepared for it!

Lynn Shore
The natural world has always deeply fascinated Lynn – we are part of it and need to respect it. She expresses this through teaching, writing and being in green spaces. Her professional background is in science and special education, medical herbalism, permaculture and nature education. She is also involved in creating urban foraging sites and increasing food sovereignty.

Tickets
Full price €45 | Discount price € 30
We give a discount to students, stadspas and artists. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.

Information
Saturday 20th of September, 15:00-17:30
We maintain a minimum of 6 participants.
Please note that, this workshop will be held in English.
For questions, please send an email to workshop@mediamatic.nl or Lynn.shore@gmail.com

Feel free to RSVP going here on Meetup, to let others in the group know you are attending. But, remember to actually book your ticket with Mediamatic ✨️

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Discover Edible & Medicinal Plants in Amsterdam
Curious about which wild plants are edible or medicinal in Amsterdam right now? Want to learn how to add free, nutritious plants to your diet, support your microbiome, and avoid the poisonous ones?
Join me for a relaxed foraging walk through Park Frankendael, where I’ll show you what’s growing this season and how to:

• Identify tasty and nourishing wild plants
• Harvest them safely and ethically
• Use them for food, medicine, and wellbeing

Along the way, you’ll also enjoy freshly brewed herbal tea from wild finds and take home a handout to help you remember what you’ve learned.

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### Practical Details

• Start & End Point: At the bike racks near Huize Frankendael / Restaurant Merkelbach
• Terrain: Gentle pace on natural paths (woodchip, soil, grass, woodland, water edges, and the foraging gardens)
• Weather: Walk goes ahead in all conditions except storms
• What to Bring: A small paper or cotton bag if you’d like to forage some herbs and seeds
• Facilities: Public toilets available in the park

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### About Me

I’m Lynn Shore, a Medical Herbalist with 15 years of experience teaching urban foraging and running Amsterdam’s city foraging garden. I’m a member of the Association of Foragers, trustee of The Herb Society, and this autumn my new book The Green City Witch will be published.
I’ve worked with everyone from community groups to Greenpeace, top bartenders, and eco-restaurants. In April 2025, I joined the WildBiome project, living only on wild local food for a month to study its effects on the body—it was eye-opening!
My background includes a Master of Public Health in Urban Food Security, and my passion is helping people connect with nature for better health, wellbeing, and a greener city.

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This walk is in English (I also speak Dutch).
More about my work: urban-herbology.org

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### Cancellation Policy

• Full refund if cancelled at least 24 hours before the event.
• If cancelled within 24 hours, a refund is possible only if your spot can be filled.

When: 2–4pm | Last day of each month (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
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*There is a reduced ticket rate for Urban Herbology apprentices. Code is on the course news/events page - or ask Lynn

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Join Lynn Shore for a 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.

On Saturday 25th of October, Amsterdam author Lynn Shore will be at esoteric store Black Moon Botanica to celebrate the launch of her new book The Green City Witch.
RSVP Going! or sign up with Ticket Tailor

What can you expect during the event?
✨️Lynn will read an extract from the book
🌙There will be a Q&A where you can ask her your questions
✨️Lynn will be signing her new book
🌙The book will be for sale at a discount
✨️There will be an exclusive offer on related Black Moon Botanica products
🌙Enjoy some enchanted plant-based snacks and drinks.

Theme: Eco-Enchanted
If you like, add a touch of sustainable magic to your outfit — a thrifted favourite, something natural, or just your favourite witchy flair.

Please note: This event will be in English. Dutch also spoken.

About The Green City Witch
A beautifully illustrated handbook for urban witches that combines green witchcraft with city life.
Rich with herbal and esoteric wisdom, this delightful and thoughtful guide provides an essential basis for magical practitioners living in cities to connect with nature, magic and community.
This book is for urbanites who want nature and magic in their lives. Written by an experienced herbalist, who eats street weeds, talks to crows, casts spells, and brews potions; this book shows how to walk a magical path while riding the waves of urban life.
Divided into three sections, The Green City Witch covers the lifestyle, knowledge, and techniques of real witches who love nature and city life. The lifestyle section covers how to work sustainably, grow roots in new towns, align with the seasons, and forage; all within city limits. The urban nature section contains an extensive directory that details how to engage with fascinating lifeforms that thrive in city buildings, streets, and parks. From spider plants to knotweed, and parakeets to earthworms, the plant, animal, and bug lore entries offer magical symbolism, folklore, foraging or care advice, and practical ways to weave them into daily life. The techniques section explains how to achieve magical goals with rituals, sigils, spells and charms, blood magic, shapeshifting, and divination, all with local, natural, sustainable materials.
The Green City Witch is an invaluable resource for beginners and experienced magical practitioners alike, who wish to embrace the endless magical potential and gifts of urban nature.

Amsterdam book illustrator, Hannah McDonald, who created the beautiful artwork for The Green City Witch, also plans to be there!

What is being said about The Green City Witch

'The Green City Witch' opens up the seemingly mundane urban environment to reveal the enchantment at its heart. This wealth of information on lore, ritual, spell work and even urban foraging, offers magical city dwellers a comprehensive guide with a host of ethical and sustainable suggestions that will enrich any magical practice.'
~ Philip Carr-Gomm, Druid Mysteries

'The Green City Witch' is packed full with useful magical practices, tips, rituals and ponderings that will give any would-be Urban Witch a great foundation on which to build their practice. The seasoned Witch will also find much to interest and inspire.
~ Eimear Burke, Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids

'The Green City Witch is a potent breath of green magic for the urban soul. It is a sacred guide for those who hear the whisper of the wild, even beneath the hum of traffic and neon lights. Within these pages lies the wisdom that magic is not bound to forests or faraway places — it thrives in alleyways, window boxes, rooftop gardens, and the cracks of city pavements...'
~ Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, The Highland Seer, High Priestess, best-selling and award-winning author of over 30 books, oracle decks, calendars, and diaries.

A lush, lyrical guide to weaving enchantment through concrete and steel, The Green City Witch is a love letter to the wild soul of the urban landscape. With wisdom rooted in lived practice and heartfelt observation, Lynn Shore invites us to find spirit in weeds between paving stones, magic in pigeon feathers, and kinship with mosses and street trees. Practical, poetic, and powerfully empowering, this is a book for witches who walk the city with bare feet on brick, who compost their spells, and who know the green breath of the Earth still pulses beneath every slab of asphalt...
~ Sian Sibley, Traditional Welsh witch, Leader of Dragon Oak Coven, author of Unveiling The Green, and, Black Paths and Green Cathedrals

'The Green City Witch by Lynn Shore emphasizes the sacredness of all things and gives simple and practical ideas of how to integrate this into everyday life in a city, The book includes a very helpful foraging calendar, spells, charms, magical operations and all the tools needed for successful green magic A lovely, evocative exploration of how to live in the city and still remain contact with nature and its rhythms. Recommended.'
~ Elisabeth Brooke, medical herbalist and author of A Woman’s Book of Herbs – A Witches’ Guide to Healing Body, Mind and Spirit and Women Healers Through History.

Practical Information

• Date:25-10-2025
• Time:18:30 - 20:00
• Location:
  Black Moon Botanica
  Spiegelgracht 30-H
  1017 JS Amsterdam
• Closest tram lines 1, 7, 19 (stop at 'Rijksmuseum')