Lindsay MaHarry’s energy — both in person and in the narrative-style journalistic videos she shares online — is nymph-like. On her Instagram account (@_oystergirl_), she celebrates the fall equinox, climbs into the giant upturned roots of a redwood and walks on top of the fallen log while puffing on a joint.
Lindsay projects the vibrancy of a feminine nature spirit, here to inspire others to connect with the Earth and explore the medicinal powers of plants. Her video content, often featured by Leafly, takes viewers into the natural environment and shines light on Cannabis grown through regenerative farming practices.
“I think there’s a lot to be learned from nature, and especially plants,” Lindsay said.
Originally from Ventura County, Lindsay recently relocated to Northern California. During the warmer months, her videos often show her smoking and swimming in secluded natural settings, something she said she picked up growing up in Ojai, where there was nothing else to do.
“(Nature) really does energetically realign you. And there’s just so much horrible stuff coming through our phones all the time that I feel like just leaving your phone behind and going on a little nature excursion, people don’t give it enough credit for what a profoundly joyful experience it is,” she said.
Initially a cultural writer covering music, art and literature, Lindsay explains that when she started covering Cannabis and noticed opportunities dropping out of print journalism, she pivoted, turning written words into videos. She notes that this visual component of her storytelling helped her gain traction.
“I try to keep my journalistic edge and tell stories through content as opposed to mimicking all the trend-based stuff that’s happening,” Lindsay said of her videos, which go up on Instagram and TikTok as well as her Substack and YouTube page. “I think that there’s more places that are opening up to these kinds of discussions around regenerative farming and sun-grown stuff, but, I mean, the majority of publications do want to publish about their advertisers or this or that who maybe don’t have practices that I align with, like, what I’m interested in.”
Lindsay said that this pivot into a more independent and visual-based storytelling really seems to resonate with her online audience and has allowed her the freedom to focus on the stories and people she finds most exciting.
“It’s nice having a place where I can just talk about stuff that I think is cool, and it’s really caught on. I feel like a lot of people are hungry for this non-sponsored content that talks about cool people doing cool stuff in this space, which is often overlooked,” she said. “A lot of the time, the coolest people have the smallest budget.”
In addition to her personal and journalistic projects, Lindsay is also working on press and social media for the Chambers Project, a psychedelic art gallery in Grass Valley. Founded and curated by Brian Chambers, the gallery closed out last year with a retrospective of iconic art created by the culture surrounding the Grateful Dead, and they opened this year with a show about the evolution of smokable or functional glass art curated by Banjo Glass.
Part of her journey learning about Cannabis has led Lindsay into herbalism. Her brand of teas, called Mind Palace Herbs, features botanical blends designed to achieve desired outcomes like focus or calming anxiety, and they are available through The Woods in West Hollywood.
Through her teas, her content and her journalism, Lindsay shows “how we relate to these plants and how they relate to us. Nature is subtle in a lot of ways; you can walk by a plant in the ground and not even know that that plant could replace your Xanax addiction or whatever problem you’re having.”
“(Nature) is kind of a language that you need to learn,” Lindsay said. “And it’s a language of patience and subtlety as opposed to the loud, screaming consumerism interface that we’re used to.”
