Hello, I'm Lynn.
I'm a biologist, herbalist, educator, author, and foraging guide based in Amsterdam, where I've been helping people reconnect with urban nature for more than fifteen years.
I believe that cities are far richer in nature than most people realise. Medicinal herbs grow beside pavements, pollinators thrive in forgotten corners, edible plants emerge between paving stones, and every neighbourhood has its own ecological story waiting to be discovered.
Through Urban Herbology, my aim is to help people notice these things, understand them, and build a meaningful relationship with the place they call home.
Whether we're making herbal remedies, sharing food gathered from local plants, exploring an Amsterdam park, or simply learning the names of the weeds growing outside the front door, my hope is always the same: that people leave feeling more confident, more connected, and more at home in the natural world around them.
My work brings together science, traditional herbal knowledge, practical craft, ecology, and sustainability. Rather than seeing these as separate subjects, I see them as different ways of understanding our relationship with nature.
Over the past three decades, I have studied biology, herbal medicine, public health, permaculture, therapeutic horticulture, education, and community wellbeing. I hold qualifications in Biology, Medical Herbalism, Public Health, Special Educational Needs, and teaching, and continue to study and learn every year. Alongside this, I have taught hundreds of people through apprenticeships, workshops, guided walks, lectures, community projects, and online courses.
I'm also the author of The Green City Witch (Aeon Books), Trustee of The Herb Society (UK), a member of the Association of Foragers, the Dutch Herboristen Gilde, Herbalists Without Borders, and several other professional organisations that support ethical herbal practice and education.
In 2025 I took part in the Wildbiome Project, living for a month entirely from locally foraged food to explore the relationship between wild diets, health, and the human microbiome. Experiences like this continue to shape both my teaching and my own daily life.
The Urban Herbology Apprenticeship brings together everything I have learned over the years. It isn't simply a course about herbs. It is an invitation to slow down, learn the seasons, make things with your own hands, care for local biodiversity, and discover the remarkable plants growing all around you.
If that sounds like the sort of journey you'd like to take, I'd be delighted to welcome you.
Urban Herbology is a Registered Training School with the CMA
Urban Herbology Apprenticeship Course is Accredited by and Registered with the CMA