Urban Herbology

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Urban Herbology

Online & In-person Herbology Course - Urban Foraging - Herbs - City Nature For around 20 years, I have been working with herbs. My own mentor is Glennie Kindred.

Join me for fascinating herb walks in Amsterdam, mentoring sessions, workshops or a year long apprenticeship through online study and gatherings. I have studied herbalism (non-clinical) in the UK, also with American wise woman Susun Weed, studied Permaculture with Patrick Whitefield and gained my PDC from Permaculture Visions. I am a member of the Dutch Gilde van Wildplukkers. I strongly favour an

d recommend nourishing/tonic and perennial herbs above others and recommend that you seek expert advice before trying to treat any problem with herbs. I only harvest what I am absolutely certain of and advise anyone else trying it to do the same. Let me empower you to work deeply with the plants which grow around you.

11/06/2026

Hollyhock time has arrived! I'm looking forward to months of the progressive opening of these beautiful flowers. They grow in the most unusual locations, brightening up streets, and mostly in deep sand (which is not at all what the gardening books tell us they need).

The flowers and leaves are edible and rather useful for some respiratory issues, and the flowers are useful as a dye stuff, but could you? I only take them after a big storm, when the mighty flower stalks may get bent double by the wind.

In the meantime I'll lose myself often, looking into this colourful portals, or watching the bees foraging within.

03/06/2026

Just wanted to give a peek at the roses in my volkstuin this week. They are in full bloom, heavily scented, and so many insects are enjoying them. You might spot some of mu girls whizzing around the garden too. They are doing so well...

I didn't bother to film the red rose which tumbles over the pergola - it is striking to look at but completely unscented.. The bowl-like complex pink rose that I filmed is equally hopeless for pollinators. Much better to have open flowers where the bees and bugs can forage nectar to their hearts' content.

We saw another pretty by hopefully rose on the witch walk last weekend. Why do plant breeders sell them? I guess they are pretty resistant to disease or something else.

In any case, here's to many weeks of scented insect friendly roses wherever you are #🌹

03/06/2026

So this was nice.... Welsh sparkling raspberry wine, from over cucumber liqueur, frozen raspberries, homemade cucumber pickle and a teeny drop of lemon juice.

02/06/2026

Today, I added some extra dates to my agenda which might be if interest to you. There's a small lacto-fermentation Workshop at my herbal volkstuin garden in Sunday the 14th of June, and the ticket links are now open for the Green City Witch Walks for Samhain, August and September. I hope to see you at one of them soon, to create magical concoctions in one way or another x

31/05/2026

Was so lovely to spend time with today's Green city witch walkers. Different plants again today - Just look at those Poppies. And butterflies, pigeons, pellitory and much more.
There are spaces left on the June 30th walk so maybe see you then!
Ticket links in bio.

30/05/2026

Thanks everyone who took part in the fermentation workshop today at Stadstuinderij Noord Oogst. Or was lots of fun and we were very productive!

I'll plan another one soon (same format as today) and another of different types of fermentation. If you'd like to hear when they're listed let me know.

27/05/2026

It's a great year for Elderflower here in Amsterdam. How's it looking in your area?

I've got a paperback full of flowers, drying on my dining table at the moment. Just half open. Been there for a day or two. I'll add them to honey probably, and perhaps make some Elderflower delight after the weekend (very busy one coming up). Our cat Last passed away several years ago but this morning at the table, I picked up that unmistakable whiff of a sawdust cat litter tray. My thoughts shot straight to gorgeous Larry, then I realised that we no longer have a cat, or a litter tray, so where was the smell coming from... a neighbours cat locked on overnight perhaps? But no, of course it was the bag of a Elderflower.

The Elderflower's staying so the window's been open all day. Perhaps I should say up the honey infusion sooner than later.

25/05/2026

This herbal iced tea wants to go into my next book but is it good enough and does it work in your kitchen? If you would like to try the recipe and give me some feedback on how it worked for you, send me a DM and I'll share the recipe with you.
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24/05/2026

This beautiful and inquisitive creature spent an hour or two on our Amsterdam rooftop, this afternoon. We had a quiet chat, they had a drink from a water dish and a peck of the roof cap. I successfully told a Crow to leave it alone (much to daughter's amusement) and for the rest, they watched our human activities on the roof terrace. After a couple of hours, time to fly away, gracefully circling the neighbourhood, then off to the woods in the park.

23/05/2026

This afternoon, maybe you'd like to call into W139 on Warmoesstraat (Krasnapolsky end) to find out about my month of eating only local wild food (4.30 - 8.00pm for the program - it's free entrance - I'm on at about 5.40).

My wild food month, part of Wildbiome 2, was April 2025, and quite an adventure. Preparing the slides to go with today's talk got me very hungry! I'll discuss what went well, less well, and how we can apply some learning from it to help us meld into the city's microbial greenscape to perhaps be happier, healthier urbanites.

This photo is from the last day of that adventure, where friends dropped in to celebrate at my volkstuin. We ended with wild cocktails and a buffet of gorgeous local wild and wonderful foods.

I'm going to do it again in September this year (all being well). Maybe you'd like to join me for a day, a week, or a month. The 2025 Dutch crew ( and ) from last time also plan to join again this year, so expect plenty more fun and ways to get involved.

Adres

Watergraafsmeer
Amsterdam
1098

Telefoon

+31627596930

Website

http://www.urban-herbology.org/, https://greencitywitch.com/

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