Workshops and Walks
Our events help connect city people to the local landscape. We teach how to ethically forage and how to safely use incredible edibles and medicinals.
Upcoming Public Events – 2025
Led by Lynn Shore (Association of Foragers, The Herb Society, Medical Herbalist, author):
Green City Witch Walks – 2025
Begin and end at Black Moon Botanica, Amsterdam’s magical apothecary — and explore streetwise spells, sacred weeds, and urban enchantments on a witch-led city walk.
14:00 – 16:00
Thursday 31st of July – Full
Sunday 31st of August – Full
Tuesday 30th of September – Full
Friday 31st of October – Full
€30 per person
Saturday 20th September – Mediamatic
Workshop: City Foraging for Mental Health
15:00 – 17:30
€45 (standard) / €30 (Artist / Student / Stadspas)
Mediamatic ticket link
Wednesday 24th September – Park Frankendael
Guided urban foraging walk
10:00 – 11:30
Find edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants that grow throughout the city
Ticket Link – €20 per person
Saturday 25th October 2025
Book Launch: The Green City Witch by Lynn Shore
18:30 – 20:00
Black Moon Botanica, Spiegelgracht 30H, Amsterdam
Free Tickets Here
Wednesday 29th October – Park Frankendael
Guided urban foraging walk
10:00 – 11:30
Find edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants that grow throughout the city
Ticket Link – €20 per person
Wednesday 5th November
The Earth, The Sea, and The Sky Conference
Online Conference
Recording Available Here
Thursday 6th November
Meet the Maker – Mediamatic
1:1 times (2x 30 min chats) with Lynn
16:00 – 17:00 @Mediamatic
Sold Out
Thursday 13th November
Aromathèque Presentation – @Mediamatic
Lynn Shore with Frank Bloem
19:30 – 21:00
Tickets Here
Friday 14th November
Meet the Maker – Mediamatic
1:1 times (2x 30 min chats) with Lynn
16:00 – 17:00 @Mediamatic
Sold Out
Thursday 20th November
Online Nature Lecture
Lynn as guest teacher, talking with Roos Kroos
(who also did the Wildbiome project in 2025) about
plants for depression/melancholy,
the Middle Ages, Hildegard of Bingen, and medicinal herbs.
Free Tickets & Info Here
Friday 21st November
Green Grimoire Making Workshop
12:30 – 15:30
Craft your own hand-bound book for spells, dreams, nature lore, and witchy notes. Using sustainable and magical materials, you’ll create a unique grimoire to take home — plus the know-how to make more.
Black Moon Botanica – Central Amsterdam – 6 spaces
(Next one Jan 18th 2026 – Amsterdam East)
Wednesday 26th November – Park Frankendael
Guided urban foraging walk
10:00 – 11:30
Find edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants that grow throughout the city
Ticket Link – €20 per person
Tuesday 16th December
Guided urban foraging walk
10:00 – 11:30
Find edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants that grow throughout the city
Ticket Link – €20 per person
Saturday 20th December
Green City Witch Course
Start date for the first group
with 50% discount
Details Here
Sunday 21st December
Midwinter Gathering for Druids, Witches and Friends
Park Frankendael
15:30 – 19:00ish
Details Here
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Private Walks (with Lynn Shore)
€140 per hour (1 to 10 people)
Gift Vouchers
Gift ticket: 1 person to attend a public group walk €20
Private walk voucher: €140 per hour
(vouchers and gift tickets are non-refundable and valid for 1 year)
Please contact Lynn to purchase a voucher
Business Group Events
We also offer bespoke walks, workshops and training for businesses, such as restaurants, bars, and colleges. Please email to discuss possibilities.
[Please note that although we often show a couple of local fungi/mushrooms on our walks, we offer herb walks, not pure mushroom walks]
The Urban Herbology Team
Lynn Shore connects people with urban nature – to help improve health, mental wellbeing, and the environment. She is a consulting herbalist, biologist, and member of the Association of Foragers, and Trustee of The Herb Society. She has been teaching ethical urban foraging and self-sufficiency skills in Amsterdam since starting Urban Herbology in 2010. In April 2025 she lived completely on local wild and foraged food for the Wildbiome Project. Lynn runs an apprenticeship course and will have two books published in 2025/26 by Aeon Books. She is available for professional speaking engagements, workshops, and guided walks. Media links.
Livvy de Graaf is Lynn’s teenage daughter. She has been eating foraged food and assisting Lynn with all things green since she was pumpkin-sized. Livvy occasionally co-hosts Urban Herbology foraging walks and Green Treasure Hunts.
Tamara Last is a forager, gardener, birth doula, cook, craft-maker, mother, and interdisciplinary social scientist. Most at peace outdoors, exploring trees and soil, Tamara is especially interested in recalling adults to the wild and instilling in young children a deep and gentle familiarity with the natural world.
Yuki is an aromatherapy instructor, aroma hand therapist, mental-herbal therapist and mother, who moved here in 2021. She specialises in using herbs and essential oils to support adaptation to new environments. Yuki offers workshops and courses, mostly in Japanese. 日本語はこちらをクリック
Refund policy
Public walk and workshop booking payments are fully refundable up to 24 hours before the event. If you need to cancel after that time (so less than 24 hours before the event start time) a refund can only be made if we can fill your place with someone else. For business and private event bookings cancellation refund is fair, and depends upon how much preparation is required prior to the event.
Apprentice only events
Please see the news and events page on the apprenticeship course website (visible when logged in) or email Lynn, for the details including times and what to bring.
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