Tracks & Roots is a family-owned & operated business. Our mission is to help children and adults form deep bonds with nature that will help transform and enrich their lives and their communities.
Tracks and Roots has been featured in Richmond Magazine in 2018 and on PBS in 2019.
INSTRUCTORS
Alison & David Meehan
Alison is the Founder of Tracks and Roots. She has her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Environmental Policy and Planning from Virginia Tech and has been an avid naturalist, wilderness survivalist, and tracker for 20 years. She is passionate about all things nature and especially bringing people of all ages and backgrounds closer to their ancestry, themselves, and the natural world.
She has attended Coyote Tracks, Tracker School, the Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Group, the Firefly Gathering, the Earth Connection School, the Wilderness Awareness School, and Living Earth School. She also attended a few dozen wildlife college courses and ran the Nature Awareness and Tracking Stuff Club. Most of her knowledge of nature connection, ancestral skills, and wilderness survival has been passed down directly to her from two mentors, Mike Blackwell and Bill Sydor, who took her under their wing as a young adult. To dive deeper into the world of herbal healing, she is also a student of the Chestnut School of Herbal Remedies, a world-renowned herbal medicine school, and has attended in-person classes by its founder, Juliet Blanketspoor.
